Vietnam War Timeline. The Jungle War. 19. January 2. 0, 1. 96. Lyndon B. Johnson takes the. Terrific dangers and. NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (NLF) ANTI-AMERICAN LEAFLETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR SGM Herbert A. Friedman (Ret.) Note: Some material from this site was depicted with the author’s permission on the Vietnam Historical website “The. Vietnam War summary: Summary of the Vietnam War: The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War, 1954–1973. Usually, it refers to the period when the United States and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty. World War II Veterans, Veterans Services, VA Medical Centers, US Military Veteran, Loan Benefits, Scholarships for Veterans, Military Veteran,Viet Nam Veterans, Viet Nam POW*MIA, Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, Coast Guard. 1945 Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government: Following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government. Japan transfers all power to Ho's. Archaeological excavations have revealed the existence of humans in what is now Vietnam as early as the Paleolithic age. Homo erectus fossils dating to around 500,000 BC have been found in caves in L.Navy. jets from the carrier Ranger. Johnson makes no speeches or public statements. Opinion polls taken in the U. S. Johnson now agrees. North Vietnam. In Hanoi, Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin is pressured by. North Vietnamese to provide unlimited military aid. American . As a result, sophisticated Soviet. SAMs) begin arriving in Hanoi. February 1. 8, 1. Full text and audio of King's declaration against the Vietnam war, delivered April 4, 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. I am cadet staff sargent Thomas Clark beloit high school JROTC only 17 so i never saw vietnam but i have read many books about the war (chickenhawk, ringed in steel, brige at dong ha, Another military coup in. Saigon results in General Khanh finally ousted from. Dr. Phan Huy Quat. February 2. 2, 1. General Westmoreland requests two battalions of U. S. The President. Scheduled to last eight weeks, Rolling Thunder. The first U. S. Throughout the war, the trail is heavily. American jets with little actual success in. North. 5. 00 American jets will be lost attacking. After each attack, bomb damage along the. During the entire war, the U. S. In North Vietnam. The. North Vietnamese react to the air strikes by.
March 8, 1. 96. 5 - The first U. S. They join 2. 3,0. American military advisors already in Vietnam. March 9, 1. 96. 5 - President Johnson authorizes the use of. Napalm, a petroleum based anti- personnel bomb that. March 1. 1, 1. 96. Operation Market Time, a joint effort. U. S. Navy and South Vietnamese Navy. North Vietnamese sea routes used to. South. The operation is highly. North Vietnamese shifting to the more. Ho Chi Minh trail. March 2. 9, 1. 96. Viet Cong terrorists bomb the U. S. The President. American combat troops to conduct. Viet Cong in the countryside. His. decision to allow offensive operations is kept secret. American press and public for two months. April 7, 1. 96. 5 - . President Johnson delivers his . But Johnson's peace overture is quickly. April 1. 5, 1. 96. A thousand tons of bombs are dropped on. Viet Cong positions by U. S. Wheeler. William Bundy, and Ambassador Taylor, meet and agree to. President sending another 4. Vietnam. April 2. President Johnson announces Americans. Vietnam are eligible for combat pay. May 3, 1. 96. 5 - The first U. S. Army combat troops, 3. Airborne Brigade, arrive in Vietnam. May 1. 1, 1. 96. 5 - Viet Cong over- run South Vietnamese. Phuoc Long Province north of Saigon and also. South Vietnam. May 1. The first bombing pause is announced by. U. S. However, each. North Vietnamese ignore the peace overtures. South via the Ho. Chi Minh trail. May 1. Viet Cong attack the U. S. During the fighting, 2nd Lt. Charles. Williams, earns the Congressional Medal of Honor by. Viet Cong machine- gun then guiding rescue. May 1. 9, 1. 96. 5 - U. S. They lead the. July 1, 1. 96. 5 - Viet Cong stage a mortar attack against Da Nang air base and destroy three aircraft. July 8, 1. 96. 5 - Henry Cabot Lodge is reappointed as U. S. Monthly draft calls are doubled. And we will meet his needs. We will stand in. Vietnam. I have spoken. I know them all, every. I have seen them in a thousand streets, of a. I. think I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their. Marines utilizing South Vietnamese militia units to. Viet. Cong guerrillas. August 3, 1. 96. 5 - The destruction of suspected Viet Cong. Da Nang by a U. S. Marine rifle company is. CBS TV and generates controversy in America. Marines. wage a preemptive strike against 1. Viet Cong planning. American airfield at Chu Lai. The Marines. arrive by helicopter and by sea following heavy. Viet Cong positions. Marines are killed and 1. Viet Cong suffer 6. This decisive first victory. U. S. Although it may result. October 1. 6, 1. 96. Anti- war rallies occur in 4. American. cities and in international cities including London and. Rome. October 1. 9, 1. North Vietnamese Army troops attack. U. S. Special Forces camp at Plei Me in a prelude to. Battle of Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam's Central. Highlands. October 3. Washington in support. U. S. The marchers are led by. Medal of Honor recipients. November 1. 4- 1. The Battle of Ia Drang Valley marks the. U. S. Upon. landing, the troops quickly disembark then engage in. B- 5. 2 air strikes, marking the first use of B- 5. The two- day battle ends with NVA. Americans are killed and. NVA losses are estimated at 2. November 1. 7, 1. The American success at Ia Drang is. U. S. 7th Cavalry sent on foot to occupy nearby Landing. Zone 'Albany.' NVA troops that had been held in reserve. Ia Drang, along with troops that had retreated. Americans and wound 1. November 2. 7, 1. In Washington, 3. White House then march on to the. Washington Monument for a rally. November 3. 0, 1. After visiting Vietnam, Defense. Secretary Mc. Namara privately warns that American. December 4, 1. 96. In Saigon, Viet Cong terrorists bomb. U. S. This will last for 3. U. S. However, the North Vietnamese denounce. An estimated 9. 0,0. South Vietnamese soldiers. North Vietnam infiltrated the South via the Ho Chi. Minh trail. Up to 5. South. Vietnam is now under some degree of Viet Cong control. Time Magazine chooses General William Westmoreland as. Man of the Year.'January 1. During his State of the Union. Congress, President Johnson comments that. Vietnam is unlike America's previous wars. It is young men. dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to. kill a man that you do not even know well enough to. During the 4. 2 day operation in. South Vietnam's Bon Son Plain near the coast, troopers. U. S. 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) once again. Americans are killed and 7. NVA losses are put at 1. The term 'search- and- destroy' is used by the media to. Airmobile troop. movements to small patrols rooting out Viet Cong in tiny. The term eventually becomes associated with. Americans burning villages. January 3. 1, 1. 96. Citing Hanoi's failure to respond to. President Johnson announces bombing of North Vietnam. January 3. 1, 1. 96. Senator Robert F. Kennedy criticizes. President Johnson's decision to resume the bombing. U. S. William Fulbright, holds televised. America's policy in Vietnam. They are limited to the destruction of. North. Vietnamese against the political institutions of South. Vietnam. Senate by a vote of 9. The attempt was led by Sen. Wayne Morse. March 9, 1. The U. S. The admission generates harsh criticism from. American academic community. March 1. 0, 1. 96. South Vietnamese Buddhists begin a. Prime Minister Ky following his. Buddhist general. This marks the. beginning of a period of extreme unrest in several. South Vietnam including Saigon, Da Nang and. Hue as political squabbling spills out into the streets. U. S. Each B- 5. 2 carries up to 1. There are six main target categories; power. April 1. 3, 1. 96. Viet Cong attack Tan Son Nhut airport. Saigon causing 1. U. S. Buddhist leader. Tri Quang blames President Johnson personally for the. Johnson responds by labeling the immolations. Ky now appeals for calm. June 2. 9, 1. 96. Citing increased infiltration of. Communist guerrillas from North Vietnam into the South. U. S. This is the largest combined. July 3. 0, 1. 96. For the first time, the U. S. During the fighting. Americans are killed and 4. North Vietnamese losses are 1. September 2. 3, 1. The U. S. 1st Air Cavalry Division. Operation Irving to clear NVA from mountainous. Qui Nhon. October 3, 1. The Soviet Union announces it will. North. Vietnam. October 2. President Johnson conducts a. Manila with America's Vietnam Allies. Australia, Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, South. Korea and South Vietnam. The Allies pledge to withdraw. Vietnam within six months if North Vietnam will. South. October 2. President Johnson visits U. S. This is the first of two visits to. Vietnam made during his presidency. November 7, 1. 96. Defense Secretary Mc. Namara is. confronted by student protesters during a visit to. Harvard University. November 1. 2, 1. The New York Times reports that 4. U. S. Defense Department now admits. December 2. 7, 1. The U. S. Over half of the. American causalities are caused by snipers and. Viet Cong ambushes, along with. Viet Cong. American Allies fighting in. Vietnam include 4. South Korea and. 7. Australians. An estimated 8. North Vietnam infiltrated the South via the Ho Chi Minh. January 2, 1. 96. Operation Bolo occurs as 2. U. S. Air Force F- 4 Phantom jets lure North Vietnamese. Mi. G- 2. 1 interceptors into a dogfight over Hanoi and shoot. This leaves only nine Mi. G- 2. 1s. operational for the North Vietnamese. American pilots. however, are prohibited by Washington from attacking Mi. G. air bases in North Vietnam. January 8- 2. 6 - Operation Cedar Falls occurs. It is the. largest combined offensive to date and involves 1. American and 1. 4,0. South Vietnamese soldiers clearing. Viet Cong from the 'Iron Triangle' area 2. Saigon. The Viet Cong choose not to fight. Americans then. uncover an extensive network of tunnels and for the. After the American and South Vietnamese troops. Viet Cong return and rebuild their. This pattern is repeated throughout the war. Americans utilize 'in- and- out' tactics in which. January 1. 0, 1. 96. U. N. Secretary- General U Thant. Vietnam is essential to the. West. On this same day, during his State. Union address before Congress, President Johnson. William Fulbright. The Arrogance of Power a book critical of. American war policy in Vietnam advocating direct peace. South Vietnamese government and the. Viet Cong. By this time, Fulbright and President Johnson. Instead, the President. Fulbright, Robert Kennedy. Congress as . Operation Junction City involves 2. U. S. The offensive includes the only parachute. U. S. During the. Ap Gu, U. S. 1st Battalion, 2. Infantry is. commanded by Lt. Haig who will later. White House aide. Junction City. ends with 2. Viet Cong killed and 3. NVA. relocate their Central Office headquarters inside. Cambodia, thus avoiding capture. March 8, 1. 96. 7 - Congress authorizes $4. March 1. 9- 2. 1 - President Johnson meets in Guam with South. Vietnam's Prime Minister Ky and pressures Ky to hold. April 6, 1. 96. 7 - Quang Tri City is attacked by 2. Viet. Cong and NVA. April 1. 4, 1. 96. Richard M. Nixon visits Saigon and. U. S. 3rd Marines and the North Vietnamese Army resulting. NVA killed. American losses are 1. The isolated air base is located in. North. Vietnam near the border of Laos. April 2. 4, 1. 96. UC Berkeley Library. Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Anti- Vietnam War Protests. The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley. Social. Activism Sound Recording Project: Anti- Vietnam War Protests in the. San Francisco Bay Area & Beyond April 1. Spring Mobilization to End the War, San Francisco (API) /center>. About This Project. Sources Cited. Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library. Copyright Information. The War . The military arm of this political group is known as the Vietcong. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and 6 months later the original 4 protesters are served lunch at the same counter. The police turn on high- pressure fire hoses and blast the crowd down the marble steps. Officers arrest 6. Berkeley students, but instead of discouraging the protest, the confrontation becomes a call to arms. The next day 5,0. HUAC hearings at San Francisco City Hall. Kennedy becomes the 3. U. S. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the . This is our good fortune.. Army Air Force lauches Operation Ranch Hand. President Diem and his brother Nhu escape unharmed. Diem attributes his survival to . Kennedy announces that U. S. Kennedy Library). December 2, 1. 96. After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non- optimistic public comment on the war's progress. University President Clark Kerr states that the action was taken . Kennedy Library). The War . Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims . The attack begins a series of intensifying protests by Buddhists against the government. A member of the Catholic Vietnamese minority, Diem continues to pursue pro- Catholic policies that antagonize Buddhist groups. The most widely publicized instance occurs on on June 1. Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in downtown Saigon . State Department message sent to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge is interpreted by Lodge to indicate he should encourage the military coup against President Diem. President Diem and his brother Nhu are shot and killed in the aftermath (on November 2nd) . Kennedy's death meant that the problem of how to proceed in Vietnam fell squarely into the lap of his vice president Lyndon Johnson. Growing out of a draft statement prepared by Tom Hayden, University of Michigan student and one of SDS' founding members, the Port Huron Statement articulated a political philosophy of participatory democracy and political activism that was to have wide impact on the 6. National Security Council recommends the bombing of North Vietnam. President Johnson approves only the planning phase by the Pentagon. Make no bones of this. Don't try to sweep this under the rug. We are at war in Vietnam. And yet the president, who is the commander in chief of our forces, refuses to say- refuses to say, mind you- whether or not the objective over there is victory, and his secretary of defense continues to mislead and misinformation the American people, and enough of it has gone by. Maddox, a destroyer located in the international waters of the Tonkin Gulf, some thirty miles off the coast of North Vietnam. The attack comes after six months of covert U. S. A second, even more highly disputed attack, allegedly takes place on August 4. Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska cast the only dissenting votes. President Johnson orders the bombing of North Vietnam. Senate Debate on the Resolution, August 5, 1. Gulf of Tonkin Notebook. May 2, 1. 96. 4: The first major student demonstrations against the Vietnam take place in New York City. Times Square to the United Nations to protest what was then called . On the same day, more than 7. San Francisco. In Boston, Madison, Wisconsin, Seattle, there are simultaneous smaller demonstrations. The Free Speech Movement is often cited as a starting point for the many student protest movements of the 1. The operation begins primarily as a diplomatic signal to impress Hanoi with America's determination and as a means of bolstering the sagging morale of the South Vietnamese. Curtis Le. May, the commander of the US Air Force, comments: . And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power, not with ground forces. I don't think anything is going to be as bad as losing, and I don't see any way of winning. A Business Week article (February 1. The Johns Hopkins speech is the first major example of the political impact of campus demonstrations. Westmoreland launches the first purely offensive operation by American ground forces in Vietnam, sweeping into Vietcong territory northwest of Saigon. American troops along with 8. Australian soldiers and a Vietnamese airborne unit assault a jungle area 2. Saigon. The story generates an angry reaction from Lyndon Johnson, who is certain that Safer must be a Communist and orders a security check. Informed that Safer wasn't a Communist, just a Canadian, he comments, . January 1. 8, 1. 96. One month before his assassination, Malcolm X denounces United States involvement in Vietnam. If France, with all types of heavy arms, as deeply entrenched as she was in what was called Indochina, couldn't stay there, I don't see how anybody in their right mind can think the U. S. So it shows her ignorance, her blindness, her lack of foresight and hindsight; and her complete defeat in South Vietnam is only a matter of time. The event is attended by about 2,5. Organizers had expected about 2. The actual count was about 2. This was the largest anti- war protest to ever have been held in Washington DC at that time, with the number of marchers approximately equal ling the number of US soldiers in Vietnam. Students also protest the April 1. US military invasion of Dominican Republic. The 3. 6 hour event is held on a playing field where Zellerbach Auditorium is now located. About 3. 0,0. 00 people turn out. UC Berkeley professors Eugene Burdick (Political Science)(see also May 2. Robert A. Scalapino (Political Science), who had agreed to speak in defense of President Johnson's handling of the war, withdraw at the last minute. An empty chair is set aside on the stage with a sign reading . Benjamin Spock; veteran socialist leader Norman Thomas; novelist Norman Mailer; independent journalist I. F. Arnoni (philosopher, writer, political activist); Edward Keating (publisher, Ramparts Magazine); Felix Greene (author and film producer); Isadore Zifferstein (psychologist); Stanley Scheinbaum (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions); Paul Jacobs (journalist and anti- nuclear activist). Hal Draper (Marxist writer and a socialist activist); Levi Laud (Progressive Labor Movement); Si Casady (California Democratic Council); George Clark (British Committee on Nuclear Disarmament); Robert Pickus (Turn Toward Peace); Bob Parris and Bob Moses (Student Non- violent Coordinating Committee); Jack Barnes (National Chair of the Young Socialist Alliance); Mario Savio (Free Speech Movement); Paul Potter (Students for a Democratic Society); and Mike Meyerson (national head of the Du Bois Clubs of America). Benjamin Spock. Listen to this recording (3. Originally broadcast on KPFA, 1. August 1. 96. 5. Stone. Listen to this recording (5. Photo of I. F. Stone at UCB teach- in (by Ron Enfield)Originally broadcast on KPFA, 3 July 1. Potter's remarks are an extended version of a speech he gave at the April 1. Washington: . In the early to mid- 1. Parris participates in several rallies against the Vietnam War, but by the end of 1. In 1. 96. 6, Parris flees to Canada to avoid the draft. In June 1. 96. 8 Moses and his second wife settled in Tanzania. Aroni. Aroni, a Holocaust survivor and outspoken human rights advocate, was publisher of the alternative magazine, Majority of One (. The only question is whether we have the will, the resources, the resolve, and the courage to do our duty and stay as we should. Franz Schurmann (Department of Sociology), Robert Scalapino (Chair, Department of Political Science)Part II: William Bundy (co- author of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; foreign policy advisor to Lyndon Johnson), and Edmund Clubb (United States Foreign Service). Part I: Listen to this recording (1hr)Part II: Listen to this recording (5. Archive # BB2. 21. Candidate for California governor, Ronald Reagan, announces that if elected governor, he will appoint former CIA Director John Mc. Cone to investigate the campus unrest at UC Berkeley. June 1. 6, 1. 96. A planned anti- war march on the Pentagon turns into a five- hour teach- in on the Pentagon steps and inside of the facility. In two days, more than 5. We will be looked upon as traitors by all the Colored People of the world if the Negro people continue to fight and die without a cause. Savio begin his sentence on June 3. Conservative Alamedia County Board of Supervisors member Joseph Bort says of the events: . NYT, 8/7/6. 5). August 1. Rioting breaks out the predominantly African American neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles. During the riots, 3. In New York, police make the 1st arrest under a new Federal draft card- burning law. Marchers include children, grandmothers, and a busload of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters along with college and high school students. The Oakland and Berkeley authorities had refused a parade permit. As the marchers approached the Oakland city limit they could see about 4. Oakland police wearing riot helmets, brandishing special riot weapons, blocking the way. The Hell's Angels motorcycle gang appears, rips down banners, and attacks protestors, yelling, . By dawn the two groups had chanted together. Shortly before his death, he writes to his wife, . Know that I love thee but must. Heynes issues a series of guidelines which caution faculty against letting political activities interfere with the educational practice. The day before the march the Angels call a press conference and distribute a news release: .
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