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Vietnam War Key Date
Key Dates of the Vietnam War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When was the Gulf of Tonkin incident? | Late July 1964 |
| What happened? | The US naval destroyer USS Maddox claimed it was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedoes, twice, while assisting South Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin |
| What did Lyndon Johnson do in retaliation? | Passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in Congress that gave him the power "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US" |
| What happened in early 1965? | The first US troops were sent into Vietnam and Operation Rolling Thunder commences/ |
| What was the public's first reaction to the War? | Happy- Johnson's popularity increased 30% overnight. |
| How many combat troops were in Vietnam by 1967 and how much was it costing? | 430,000, and $35 million a day |
| How did the Viet Cong fight? | Using guerilla ambush tactics and using the jungle to their advantage. They planted booby traps and hid in a network of complex underground tunnels that were near impossible to find. |
| What was initiated in June 1967? | Operation Phoenix, a US sponsored operation to find and arrest suspected Viet Cong operatives. Nearly 20,000 people were assassinated through this, and 28,000 were tortured. |
| What happened in January 1968? | Khe Sanh- a huge Viet Cong offensive on a US Marine base as a diversion tactic for the Tet Offensive on the 30 January. |
| What were the after effects of the Tet Offensive? | It was a huge political defeat. It proved the war was far from over, and televised brutality lost the support of the nation. |
| What was the public opinion on the war, now? | "The only rational way out will be to negotiate" Walter Cronkite. 60% of Americans viewed the Tet Offensive as a defeat. |
| What happened to troop morale? | Plummeted. The first recorded incidents of "fragging" occurred and over a third of troops were experimenting with drugs. |
| What happened in March 1968? | LBJ announced he would not stand for re-election |
| Who won the US Presidential Elections in 1968? | Richard Nixon |
| Who was William Calley? | The man in charge of the My Lai massacre in 1968, killing 504 men, women, and children. Sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| What was Vietnamization and when was it announced? | Vietnamization was the policy of the USA steadily pulling troops out of Vietnam while giving control and economic support to the South Vietnamese Army |
| What did Nixon do in the early 1970s? | Invaded Cambodia, without permission or knowledge from Congress, and attempted to invade Laos to sever the Ho Chi Minh trail |
| What happened on 4 May 1970? | Kent State University shootings that rocked the nation. Four students killed by National Guardsmen. Turned public opinion even more. |
| What happened in 1972? | Henry Kissinger initiated peace talks between the North and the USA which Thieu refused to attend. |
| What happened in January 1973? | A peace agreement was signed and a ceasefire declared. |
| How many men had the USA lost? | 57,000. |
| What also happened in January 1973? | Nixon was implicated in the Watergate scandal and lost all his credibility, thus resigning in 1974. |
| What happened in 1975? | Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Vietnam was now one Communist nation and the war was over. |
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simseloise
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