Vietnam timeline.

By luciebyler

  • Geneva Accord

    In 1954 there was a series of documents signed at the end of the first Indochina War that divided Vietnam.

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    In 1964 US destroyers were allegedly in a confrontation with North Vietnam.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    a sustained US bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

  • US troops arrival

    the landing of the first US combat troops.

  • Battle of la Drang

    the first major battle between the US and North Vietnam.

  • Tet Offensive

    Viet Cong launched a coordinated attack at south Vietnam

  • Mai Lai Massacre

    US soldier, known as Charlie Company, killed between 340 - 500 unarmed civilians.

  • rise of Khmer rouge

  • Paris Peace Accords

    An agreement that the US, Viet Cong, North, and south Vietnam signed.

  • Final US Troop Withdrawal

    This marked the end of US involvement in Vietnam.

  • the killing fields

  • forced evacuation of cities

  • capture of Phnom penh

  • targeting of ethnic groups

  • targeting "undesirables"

  • the S-21 prison

  • Vietnamese invasion

  • overthrow of Khmer rouge

  • forced agricultural labor

  • Fall of Saigon

    North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon.