Vietnam War Timeline for Kids
The main events and Vietnam War dates can be seen in the
short, history Timeline for kids. The first US combat troops were
sent to Vietnam in March 1965 and left in August 1973.
Vietnam
War
Dates and Timeline: Main Dates and Events
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1862 -
Vietnam became part of the French
Empire
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1930 -
Ho Chi Minh helped to form the Indo-Chinese Communist Party
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1941 -
Viet Minh (League
for the Independence of Vietnam) formed to counter
Japanese invasion of Vietnam. Viet Minh was primarily
led by Communists.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1945 -
Japan handed Vietnam to the Viet Minh
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1945 -
In September 1945
Ho Chi Minh declared the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
and French troops arrived back in Vietnam
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1946 -
War broke out between the French and
the Viet Minh
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1949 -
Communist China was established and allowed the Viet
Minh to train in China away from French attacks.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1950 -
President Truman refused to recognize
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1954 -
The Battle of Dien
Bien Phu (March 13, 1954 – May 7, 1954) ended the French
effort to retain Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the
Indochina War. The US promised aid worth $100 million to
the anti-communists in line with the Communist
Containment policy.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1954 -
April 1954: The
Geneva Accords of 1954 were designed to secure peace in
Vietnam and organize an interim government in Vietnam to
lead to Vietnam’s transition to independence.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1954 -
April 1954:
SEATO was established to contain
the spread of Communism by the People's Republic of
China and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North
Vietnam).
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1955 -
Pro-American
Ngo Dinh Diem became President of South Vietnam in October.
America agreed to train Diem’s army.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1955 -
The
Vietnam War (November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975) also
known as the Second Indochina War, begins.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1956 -
Ngo Dinh Diem
began to arrest anyone suspected of being in the Viet
Minh who responded by starting a campaign of guerrilla
warfare in the south.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1959 -
The
first US casualties in Vietnam when American military
advisors were killed.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1960 -
The National
Liberation Front (NLF) was formed in Hanoi known as the
Vietcong (VC) in the south.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1961 -
President John F. Kennedy pledged
additional aid to South Vietnam
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1962 -
The number of US military advisors in
Vietnam increased from 700 to 12,000
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1962 -
Operation Chopper
began America's first combat missions against the
Vietcong.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1962 -
The US started to
use
Agent Orange
in chemical warfare
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1963 -
1963
Battle of Ap Bac (December - January 2, 1963)
demonstrated the difficulties in waging guerrilla
warfare
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1963 -
The 'Buddhist
Crisis' started on June 11, 1963 in which Buddhist monks
committed suicide by burning themselves to death as a
public protest to the persecution by Ngo Dinh Diem
government.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1963 -
The Anti-War
Movement in the United States escalates in the 1960's
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1963 -
President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a military coup on
2 November 1963.
The new leader of South Vietnam, General Khanh, doubted that his own army was strong enough to prevent
a communist victory
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1964 -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident (August 2, 1964) when the destroyer USS Maddox
came under attack by three North Vietnamese torpedo
boats.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1964 -
The
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution was passed on August 7, 1964 in response
to the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1964 -
Battle
of Bien Hoa (November 1, 1964) when North Vietnamese
bombed a large airfield and US military headquarters
leading to escalation of the conflict to defend US
aircraft and personnel stationed in the south
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
‘Operation Rolling
Thunder’ started. The first US combat troops were sent
to Vietnam in March 1965 and by the end of the year
200,000 US troops had joined the conflict. The first
major conventional clash between USA and NVA was at Ia
Drang
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
Battle of Ba Gia (May 29, 1965)
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
Battle of Dong Xoai (June 10, 1965)
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
Code name Arc
Light Operations (June 18, 1965 - August 18, 1973) in
which overwhelming aerial raids of B-52 Stratofortresses
were launched against enemy positions in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
Battle of Ia Drang Valley (November
14, 1965 – November 18, 1965)
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1965 -
Students at
American Universities started to strongly protest
against the US policy in Vietnam
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Vietnam
War
Timeline: Main Dates and Events
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Dates and Events
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Vietnam
War
Timeline: Main Dates and Events
History Time line:
1966 -
The Bombing of Hanoi begins on June
29, 1966. By 1966, 400,000 US troops were in Vietnam
History Time line:
1967 -
Nguyen Van Thieu became President of
South Vietnam
History Time line:
1967 -
Operation Cedar Falls. The Iron
Triangle of Vietcong tunnels is discovered
History Time line:
1968 -
The CIA started
Operation Phoenix, arresting, interrogating and killing
suspected Viet Cong activists.
History Time line:
1968 -
The
Tet Offensive
began on January 31, 1968, North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong forces consisting of a coordinated series of fierce
attacks on more than 100 North Vietnamese cities and
towns.
History Time line:
1968 -
Capture of the USS
Pueblo, a Navy intelligence ship by North Korea Jan 23,
1968
History Time line:
1968 -
Battle of Khe Sanh (January 21, 1968
– July 9, 1968)
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1968 -
Battle of Hue (January 30, 1968 –
March 3, 1968)
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1968 -
The
My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968 involving the mass killing by
US troops of between 347-504 unarmed South Vietnamese
civilians.
History Time line:
1968 -
Battle of Dong Ha (April 30-May 2,
1968)
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1968 -
November 1, 1968:
The US launched the Accelerated Pacification Campaign on
November 1, 1968, with an objective of expanding
government control over 1,200 villages controlled by the
Vietcong.
History Time line:
1969 -
Operation
Breakfast. President Nixon authorizes the covert bombing
of Cambodia in an attempt to destroy supply routes.
History Time line:
1969 -
By April 1969 US
troop deployment reaches highest point numbering
543,000. At this point President Nixon adopted the
policy of Vietnamization
and began US troop
withdrawal on May 14, 1969.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1969 -
The Battle of
Hamburger Hill (May 10 - May 20 1969). Hamburger Hill
was the nickname for the Dong Ap Bia mountain in South
Vietnam.
Vietnam War
Timeline: 1969 -
Ho Chi Minh died on September 2, 1969
at the age of seventy-nine years old
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1969 -
Details of the My Lai massacre were
made public in November 1969.
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1970 -
On April 30, 1970
President Nixon extends the Vietnam War into Cambodia
and the need to draft 150,000 more U.S. soldiers for the
expansion of the war effort. US and
South Vietnamese forces cross the Cambodian border to
get at enemy bases.
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1970 -
There were large
scale anti-war demonstrations throughout USA. Four
student demonstrators were shot dead during the
Kent State
University Shooting by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1970 -
Secret
peace talks were held in Paris
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1971 -
Publication of the
Pentagon Papers in the
summer of 1971. The Pentagon Papers was the name given
to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S.
political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945
to 1967
Vietnamese War
Timeline: 1971 -
Lt. William Calley was convicted of
murder at My Lai and jailed.
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1972
- The Easter Offensive began on March
30, 1972.
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1972
- Battle of Loc Ninh (4–7 April 1972)
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1972
- Battle of An Loc
(April 13 and July 11, 1972) an important part of the
North Vietnamese Eastertide Offensive
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1973
- The Paris Peace
Accords was signed on January 27, 1973 including a
ceasefire agreement heralds the
End of the Vietnam War.
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1973
- Direct U.S. military involvement
ended on 15 August 1973
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1975
- The North
Vietnamese Army capture Saigon on April 30, 1975 and
President Nguyen Van Theu's South Vietnamese government
surrenders to the Communists, marking the end of the
war.
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1975
- In May 1975 the
Battle on Koh Tang in Cambodia was officially the last
American battle of the Vietnam War. It was the only time
Americans battled against the
Khmer Rouge.
Vietnamese
War Timeline: 1976
- North and South
Vietnam were reunified and large scale resettlement
programs began
Vietnamese
War Timeline: By the end of the
conflict more than 3 million people, including 58,307
Americans, were killed in the War. More than half of
those killed were Vietnamese civilians.
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War
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