Vietnam

1963-1968

Event #1 Buddhist Revolt

350 Buddhist Monks Ban Against Public Display Of Religious Flags GVN Appoints VP Tho To Dissolve Situation Thich Quang Duc Burns Himself In Protest Against Diem Regime GVN Crushes Buddhist Riots Pres Kennedy Announces Henry Cabot Lodge as U.S. Ambassador of Vietnam (Before Assassination; June 27th 1963)

Event #2
Kennedy

1963) Vice President Lindon B. Johnson takes over power

assassination (November 22,

Event #3 Gulf of Tonkin

USS Maddox is attacked by North Vietnamese U-Boats after 6 months of covert US naval operations Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Congress and the Senate authorized LBJ to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the Unites States to prevent further aggression. Passed unanimously in Congress and 82-2 in the Senate

Event #4 Operation Rolling Thunder

Beginning

February 1965, bombing operations, called Operation Rolling Thunder began and continued for the next three years

Event #5 Anti-War Rallies

Veterans

from World War I & II, along with veterans from the Korean war stage protests in New York City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMyaVxYUZ3I

Event #6 Tet Offensive

North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces sweep through South Vietnam including the capital, Saigon. Turns out to be a huge defeat for Communists, but a huge win politically and psychologically. US military assessment of the war is questioned and end seems far off

Works Cited
http://www.vietnamgear.com/war1963.as

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