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Title: Vietnam Overview/Timeline
Description: Dates and events that happened/occurred throughout the Vietnam War. A chronological overview.

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Vietnam Timeline 
 
1800s​
­ Up until World War II, ​

France​
 ruled most of the countries in ​
Indochina​
, including 

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
...
 The Vietnamese greatly disliked the intentions 
of the French colonists, who did not hesitate to imprison any and all Vietnamese nationalists 
that protested the actions of the French rulers
...
 
 

1930​ o Chi Minh​
­ ​
H
 helped to created the ​
Indochinese​
 Communist Party
...
  
 

1940​ he Japanese had taken control of vietnam
...
 

 
1945​ llied defeat of ​  in August forced the Japanese to leave Vietnam
...
 Towards the end of 1945, French troops began to move back 
into Vietnam, and eventually gaining control of the cities and the country's half
...
 Peter Dewey's 
­ ​
T
warnings
...
 
aid​
Over the next few years America paid for most of ​
France's​
 war putting nearly 1 billion which 
was put into the war effort to defeat a man America had once supported
...
 
The United States had then settled for a stalemate with the communists in Korea, which only 
stiffened America's resolve to the halt the spread of communism elsewhere
...
 Also, The United States was at a stalemate with Korea which made the US even more 
motivated to end communism everywhere
...
 This made the public aware of the danger of communism 
and that if one country on the brink of communism gives in, the others are soon to follow
...
 ​
T
Vietnam’s anticommunist nationalists to work out a peace agreement
...
 The Communist 
controlled the North while the Anti­communist controlled the South
...
 This system of arms 
distribution paths became known as the ​
Ho Chi Minh Trail
...
 With that 
said, the Eisenhower administration took very little action, deciding to “sink or swim with ngo 
Dinh Diem
...
 President Kennedy increased financial aid to Diem’s regime and also sent 
military advisors to properly train South Vietnamese troops
...
 ​
T
start with, but it turned out to be a total failure
...
 But through all this violence 
there was a group of individuals called ​
Buddhist Monks​
 that would protest the violence with 
protests like setting themselves on fire in ritual suicides
...
S ships against japanese attackers in 
o

the Tonkin Gulf
...
  

 
1965​ March 1964 The ​
­ In ​
USS Maddox​eparted with the 7th fleet to help establish patrol off 
 ​
d
the coast of South Vietnam
Title: Vietnam Overview/Timeline
Description: Dates and events that happened/occurred throughout the Vietnam War. A chronological overview.