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1830s
Minh Mang inaugurated a policy of persecution of Catholics. During this time, Bai became a critical of French reluctance so we worked with Diem to loosen colonial restrictions to the Vietnamese life.

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1880s
France tightened its control over Vietnam, leading to more anti-Catholic violence because Catholicism was identified as a foreign oppressor.

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1930-1931
Diem helped the French put down the first peasant revolt in central Vietnam.

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1933
Diem controlled the most important ministry in Bao Dai's cabinet. However, he soon resigned because the French rejected all his suggestions.

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March 1945
French rule and took over Vietnam, offering Diem premiership, which he turned down and later regretted.

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November 1946
Diem was captured by communist soldiers until French re-occupied Vietnam.

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1950s.
Revolutionary Workers' party founded by Diem's brother's Nhu gained power.

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1950
Americans intervened and know that he needs to support neither a communist or colonialist nation in Vietnam.

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1951
Diem was given an interview by Robert Hoey, where the Americans agreed with his views of communism and colonialism. This later gave rise to the "domino theory." He also exposed the French's solution about Indochina

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March 1953
Joseph Stalin died, and his successors tried to distant themselves from the tyrant's foreign policy.

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1954
Zhou was anxious because people were not taking his nation seriously in international affairs since it has only been 5 years of the creation of People's republic. He decides to use Geneva to display China's maturity.

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July 20 1954
A truce was signed by French representatives and Viet Minh to stop the hostilities. The agreement fixed the demarcation line along the 17th parallel that divided Vietnam. It established provision for elections.

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August 1954
200K refugees were waiting to be evacuated from the North.

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1954
They continued to use propaganda in order for people to move from the north to the south. They spread negative rumors about Red China in the North.

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1954
International Control Committee was established to ensure compliance with the Geneva Accords.

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Mid 1950s
Most Americans stationed at South Vietnam. There were many issues such as agriculture and land ownership. Landlords rented land to tenant farmers, whom barely were able to be out of debt.

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1955
Diem was against Bao Dai in an election and he won using a few tactics. He used propaganda to portray himself as youthful, while he portrayed Bao Dai as bloated and hung over.

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1955
CIP lasted 2 decades till 1975. This was beneficial to the weathly.

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January 1955
Diem declared so rules: Landlords only taking 25% of the tenant famers' crops, and rent depends on the landlords' aid. However, these rules were ignored.

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1956
The Diocese of Saigon had more Catholics than Paris or Rome. 55% of Vietnam's Catholics who live in the south are from the north.

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1956
Can Lao controlled every facet of the administrative apparatus of South Vietnam. Punished and tortured people to stifle dissent.

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1956
Land was distributed among the previous landlords, whom were killed, sent to labor camps, or eliminated.

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1956
There is a election for national assembly, which Diem did not like and tried every way to get people out of it. He threatened, charged, and even disqualified them from the election, making rules that prevented them from doing more.

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April 26, 1960
The Caravelle group made the letter public at the press conference. This letter was a letter for the president in demand of a new reform.

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September 2, 1960
Kennedy delivered during his television interview with Walter Cronkite that Diem's government is falling apart because he does not have the support of the people.

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1961
Diem tried to create the agroville campaign, where the peasants will get defense if they support Diem. However, this backfired because he made the peasants do it themselves and told them that they have to move out of their hometown.

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1963
Many Buddhist confrontations in the summer, but Diem chose to ignore it. Diem blamed the VC and not his own regime for why this is happening.

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1963
The US extricated itself from Vietnam with minimal loss of blood and treasure.

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January 2, 1963
Battle of Ap Bac was the first major confrontation between ARVN forces and the NLF during the Vietnam war.

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May 1963
A week after Frederick Nolting left office, the head Buddhist hierarchy Thich Tinh Khiet called for a two day fast protest against Diem.

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June 11, 1963
Thich Quang Duc Performed his last action of devotion, allowing America to reduce their Diem experiment.

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mid 1963
Most villages in the North supported the VC or stayed neutral. Neither side won because one retreated while the other refused to make a counterattack.

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November 2, 1963
Diem was assassinated.