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with help from the u.s. Ngo Dinh Diem, becomes president of south Vietnam.
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a communist insurgency began in the south, supported by north vietnam.
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As the U.S. presence of military advisors grows, President Diem's government is overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup.
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Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which North Vietnamese boats allegedly attack two U.S. destroyers.
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President Johnson deploys the first U.S. combat troops to Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam, also begins.
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The number of U.S. troops in Vietnam increases, reaching 400,000 by year's end.
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The Tet Offensive, a series of surprise attacks by North Vietnamese forces on over 100 cities in South Vietnam.
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President Johnson halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces he will not run for re-election.
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The My Lai Massacre occurs, in which U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians.
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President Richard Nixon begins a policy of "Vietnamization" to gradually withdraw U.S. troops and shift combat responsibility to the South Vietnamese army.
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The Khmer Rouge, following Pol Pot's extremist ideology, aimed to create a classless, agrarian society free of foreign influence. -
The Khmer Rouge captured Cambodia's capital. -
Pol Pot initiated a complete social reset, aiming to erase all of Cambodia's traditions and rebuild a new revolutionary culture from scratch. -
The Khmer Rouge marched two million Phnom Penh residents and inhabitants of other cities into the countryside. -
Anyone with an education or a connection to the former government was a target for extermination. -
I took my first breath.
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I learn fundamental learning concepts and mortar skills that I use every day.
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I had the best teacher I've had to this day and still have a stuffed checkered moose head form her class.
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in the sixth grade I broke my arm skiing in Alyeska and got a lime green cast.
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Over the summer I worked at as a deckhand at a lodge and on a fishing boat.