Vietnam War
Category: Other
Updated: 19 Feb 2020
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Created byCamryn Sense
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Ngo Dinh Diem
emerges as the
leader of South
Vietnam.North Vietnam forces
begin to build a supply
route through Laos
and Cambodia called
the Ho Chi Minh Trail.Ho Chi Minh is
replaced by Le
Duan due to
health problems.President John
F. Kennedy
sends helicopters
and 400 Green
Berets to South
VietnamIn Operation Ranch
Hand, the U.S. starts
spraying Agent
Orange and other
herbicides over
areas of South
Vietnam to reveal
the Ho Chi Minh
Trail.At Ap Bac, South
Vietnamese troops
are defeated by a
unit of Viet Cong
fighters.The attacks in the
Gulf of Tonkin
leed Congress to
authorize the
president to “take
all necessary
measures, including
the use of armed
force”President Johnson
orders the bombing
of targets in North
Vietnam.U.S. troop
numbers in
Vietnam rise
to 400,000.U.S. troop numbers
stationed in Vietnam
increase to 500,000.At Ap Bia Mountain,
U.S. paratroopers
attack entrenched
North Vietnamese
fightersU.S. National
Security Advisor
Henry Kissinger
begins secret
peace
negotiationsThe New York
Times publishes
a series of
articles detailing
Defense
Department
documents
about the warPresident Nixon
orders the launch
of the most intense
air offense of the
war in Operation
LinebackerSelective Service
announces the
end to the draft
and institutes an
all-volunteer
militaryPresident Nixon
resigns in the
face of after the
Watergate
Scandal is
revealedPresident Ford
removes any
further U.S.
military
involvement
in Vietnam.Periods
A U.S. Marine
garrison at
Khe Sanh in
South Vietnam
is bombarded
with massive
artillery from
North Vietnam
for 77 days
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