BY ANDREW MARSH

HO CHI MINH AND HIS PEOPLE'S CONGRESS CREATE THE NLC TO CREATE A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

VIETNAM IS RECOGNIZED AS A FREE STATE BY THE FRENCH.

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE FRENCH BEGIN

Indochina WAR BEGINS WHERE THE VIETNAM ARMY ATTACKED THE FRENCH.

Chinese, Soviets Offer Weapons to Vietminh

U.S PLEGES TO HELP AID THE FRENCH BY GIVING THEM MONEY.

THE BATTLE OF DIENBIENPHU BEGINS AND THE FRENCH FIND OUT THEY MET THEIR MATCH.

THE VIETNAM CAPTURED THE FRENCH COMMAND PIST AND FORCED THE FRENCH TO CEASE FIRE.

EISENHOWER STATES THE DOMINO THEORY THAT WHEN ONE STATE BECOMES COMMUNISM THE REST WILL.

THE Geneva Convention IS CREATED

DIEM REFUSES Geneva Convention ACCORD AND REFUSES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONWIDE ELECTION.

DIEM BECOMES PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM.

THE FRENCH LEAVE VIETNAM.

KENNEDY IS ELECTED PRESIDENT.

DIEM SURVIVES A COUPT ATTEMPT AND THEN LATER THE VIETCONG WERE FORMED.

THE CHEMICAL AGENT ORANGE GETS DEPLOYED.

BUDDHIST PROTESTED BY SETTING THEMSELVES ON FIRE.

DIEM MURDERED AND OVERTHROWN MILITARY TAKES OVER.

THE GULF OF TONKIN OCCURS WHERE THE SHIP FOUGHT IT WAS BEING ATTACKED.

THE MAR LI MASSACRE HAPPENED WHERE UNARMED CIVILIANS WERE KILLED.