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Chapter 31:The Vietnam Era |
1945 Ho Chi Minh unifies Vietnam and fights to expel the French
1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu: leads to French withdrawal
Geneva accords: establish guidelines for peace and national elections in Vietnam
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated: henceforth instability plagues South Vietnam’s government
1964 Tonkin Gulf incident; Tonkin Gulf Resolution: Congress grants Johnson power to expand the war
1965 Rolling Thunder: U.S. begins bombing of North Vietnam
Antiwar "teach-ins": major campus protests begin
César Chavez: leads national campaign on behalf of farm workers
1967 March on the Pentagon: antiwar protests spread
1968 U.S. troop levels peak in Vietnam: at 536,000
Tet offensive: discredits notion that U.S. is winning war
Paris peace talks open with North Vietnam
Eugene McCarthy: peace candidate challenges Johnson in New Hampshire primary; Johnson withdraws: decision stuns nation
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated: riots erupt; Robert Kennedy assassinated
Democratic Convention in Chicago: riots spread discord and dim Humphrey’s chances
George Wallace: launches third party candidacy
Presidential election: Nixon wins narrowly 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
1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia: protests lead to killings at Kent State and Jackson State
Clean Air and Water acts: Nixon era reforms
Recession: creates stagflation
Congress repeals Tonkin Gulf resolution
1971 Wage and price controls: Nixon seeks to control inflation
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: Court upholds school busing
1972 Nixon’s trip to China
SALT: arms control opens détente with Soviet Union
Renewed air war: mining of Haiphong Harbor and Christmas bombings of North Vietnam
1973 Vietnam peace treaty
Wounded Knee: AIM supporters occupy site of massacre
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