Vietnam1963-1968

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 assassination (November 22,

1963) Vice President Lindon B. Johnson takes

over power

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.a

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