 |
--
Timelines & Dates -- |
 |
Critical
Dates of the Viet Nam Conflict [John Swensson's page]
United
States in Vietnam 1945-1975
[Comprehensive
Timelines with Quotes and Analysis - excellent
site]
Interactive
Wartime Chronology: VIETNAM,
1945-1975
Vietnam
Timeline Online: 1945-1997
The
Events: A Chronology of US Involvement in the Vietnam
War
Dien
Bien Phu: 1954 battle changed Vietnam's
history
The Geneva Peace Accords, July 21, 1954
The
American Response to the Geneva Declarations, July 21,
1954
Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), September 8,
1954
President
Eisenhower's Letter of Support to Ngo Dinh Diem, October
23, 1954
Law
10/59, May 6, 1959: Excerpts from Law 10/59, Diem's
repressive
legislation
against suspected Communists
Duong
Loi Cach Nang Mien Nam [The Path of Revolution in the
South], 1956
[The southern
Communists' statement of opposition to the U.S.-Diem
regime
and commitment to armed
violence.]
Rusk-McNamara
Report to Kennedy, November 11,
1961
Phone
Conversation between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot
Lodge,
November
1,1963
The
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 6-7,
1964
McGeorge
Bundy Memo to President Johnson, February 7,
1965
[Excerpts from Bundy's memo to
Johnson, advocating "sustained reprisal
against North Vietnam" in response to the NLF attack on
two U.S. army
installations.]
Thu
Vao Nam [Letters to the South], 1965
[The Hanoi Politburo's letter to the Communist Party in
the South, outlining the
Party's
commitment to a protracted war
strategy.]
National
Security Action Memorandum Number 328, April
6,1965
[Memo signed by McGeorge
Bundy and addressed to the Secretary of
State,
Secretary of Defense, and
the Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency,
documenting Johnson's
approval of a 20,000-man increase in U.S.
military
support for South Viet
Nam.]
Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President
Johnson,
July
20, 1965
[A summary of McNamara's
memo advocating further increases in the
number
of combat troops committed to
Viet Nam.]
Democratic
Republic of Vietnam Peace Proposal, June 26,
1971
[Hanoi's peace proposal,
presented at the Paris talks in 1971.]
Peace
Proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of
the Republic of
South
Viet Nam, July 1, 1971
[The Southern
Communists' peace proposal, presented at the 1971 Paris
talks]
President
Nixon's Speech to the American Public, November 3,
1969
[Nixon's "Vietnamization"
plan.]
President
Nixon's Speech to the American Public, April 30,
1970
[Nixon's justification of the
offensive in Cambodia.]
The
Paris Accords, January 27, 1973
[Excerpts from the Paris peace agreement, formally
concluding the war
between the
United States and North Viet Nam.]
The
Involvement: A Chronology
"The
Vietnam War Declassification Project": April
2000
| 
