US Involvement in Vietnam by jadee

1949

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:31:31 UTC

Mao takes over China and starts to support Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam with their communist party

1949

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:32:22 UTC

USA funds the french military in Indochina for 500 million dollars per year (9 years)

1954

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:33:12 UTC

Geneva conference. Vietnam is split and US Puppet Diem is installed as the south Vietnamese leader

1965

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:33:33 UTC

The first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam

1954

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:35:59 UTC

The French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu, triggering the conference at Geneva to discuss what happens with Vietnam next

1960

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:39:12 UTC

Formation of the Viet Cong, a communist army/group of freedom fighters in the South.

1968

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:45:56 UTC

Tet Offensive. The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong attack on the South Vietnamese (puppet) government and the US military forces. This shocked the US and its citizens as they thought the US was winning the war.

1968

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:49:53 UTC

The Mai Lai Massacre. It was the biggest war crime the US had ever committed. The US Army infiltrated Vietnamese villages and massacred every Vietnamese they saw. They killed women, children, the elderly, and people working and showed no mercy with no exceptions. May have been in response to Tet Offensive

1969

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:52:50 UTC

The Vietnamization policy was President Richard Nixon’s strategy to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam while strengthening South Vietnam’s ability to defend itself, by slowly replacing US military with trained Vietnamese with continuing naval and military support

+/- 1964

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:55:52 UTC

The US started catching on with what was happening in Vietnam and started anti-war peace movements in the form of riots, protests, and campaigns. It grew massive after The Mai Lai massacre, as they failed to cover up the terrible war crimes they had done.

1975

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 06:58:46 UTC

Full US Evacuation: Last-minute evacuation from Saigon before its fall. This marked the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

1973

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-10 13:09:08 UTC

Paris Peace Accords. The U.S. withdrew troops from South Vietnam and gave financial aid to South Vietnam until 1975

May 1941

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-11 00:06:27 UTC

Formation of the Viet Minh

Oct 1957

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-11 00:07:15 UTC

Small Scale Civil war in South Vietnam

Feb 1965-1968

jaderiddington310 — 2025-02-11 00:08:16 UTC

Operation Rolling Thunder