Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1945 Ho Chi Minh unifies Vietnam: his forces are soon fighting to expel French

1947 Puerto Rico given commonwealth status

1954 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu: leads to withdrawal from Vietnam

Geneva accords: establish guidelines for peace and national elections in Vietnam

1963 Diem assassinated: instability plagues South Vietnam's government

United States has 16,000 "advisors" in Vietnam

1964 Tonkin Gulf incident: North Vietnamese engage American destroyers

Tonkin Gulf Resolution: Congress grants Johnson power to expand the war

1965 Rolling Thunder begins bombing of North Vietnam: Johnson resorts to air power

Antiwar "teach-ins" begin on college campuses: major student protests

César Chavez leads national campaign on behalf of farm workers

1967 March on the Pentagon: antiwar protests spread

Johnson’s advisors oppose war: administration divides over war

1968 U.S. troop levels peak in Vietnam: at 536,000

Tet offensive: Viet Cong attacks discredit notion that U.S. is steadily winning war

My Lai massacre: U.S. troops kill 200 in Vietnamese village

Peace talks begin in Paris: U.S. and North Vietnam seek accord

Eugene McCarthy challenges Johnson in New Hampshire primary: peace candidate

Johnson withdraws from race: decision stuns nation

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated: riots erupt

Robert Kennedy enters race and is assassinated

Democratic Convention in Chicago: riots spread discord and dim Humphrey's chances

George Wallace candidacy: launches third party

Nixon wins election: narrow victory over Humphrey

1969 Secret bombing of Cambodia: Nixon escalates the war

Vietnamization leads to reduction of American forces

Nixon Doctrine: spreads defense burdens to allies

Senate rejects Nixon Court nominations: two had opposed civil rights

1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia: expansion of war leads to protests

Killings at Kent State and Jackson State: anti-war protesters killed by authorities

March on Washington: renewed antiwar protest

Clean Air and Water acts: Nixon era reforms

Creation of O.S.H.A.: Nixon supports Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Recession: creates stagflation

Repeal of Tonkin Gulf resolution

1971 Nixon drafts wage and price controls: seeks to control inflation

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: Court upholds school busing

1972 Nixon trip to China: opens new Cold War era

Detente with Soviet Union: U.S. and Soviet Union seek arms and trade deals to reduce economic drain of military expenditures

SALT I: arms control opens détente with Soviet Union

Revenue Sharing Act: new approach to federal assistance programs

Watergate break-in

Nixon reelected

Mining of Haiphong Harbor: Nixon escalates war to force North Vietnamese to end war

Christmas bombings of North Vietnam: further escalation of war

1973 Vietnam peace treaty: America's longest war ends

AIM supporters occupy Wounded Knee: site of massacre

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