A TIMELINE BY HAMZA KASHUBECK

HO CHI MINH DECLARES VIETNAM'S INDEPENDENCE

GENEVA ACCORDS STATE THAT VIETNAM IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY BUT MUST SPLIT TO NORTH/SOUTH

EISENHOWER'S REELECTION

ELECTION DAY IN WHICH JFK WON

NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (VIET CONG) WAS ORGANIZED IN SOUTH VIETNAM

JOHNSON TAKES OFFICE AFTER KENNEDY IS ASSASSINATED

THE GULF OF TONKIN AGREEMENT

PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS REELECTED PRESIDENT

First United States ground troops ARRIVE IN Vietnam

100,000 demonstrate against the war in New York City

A massive riot in which the Pentagon was besieged

A SUDDEN VIOLENT ATTACK ON TOWNS AND CITIES CALLED TET OFFENSIVE TAKES PLACE

NIXON IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

THE PLAN NIXON CREATED TO END THE WAR BY TRAINING SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS TO TAKE OVER THE FIGHTING

Four students are killed during anti war protests aT Kent University

NIXON INVADES/BOMBS CAMBODIA

PARIS ACCORD

WAR POWERS ACT

SOUTH VIETNAM SURRENDERS TO COMMUNISTS

US INVOLVEMENT IN THE VIETNAM WAR ENDS