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Recent Event Highlights: Operation Linebacker II, Operation Linebacker 1, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and 14 more...

Created by 13risnerd on Dec 21, 2010

Last updated: 01/11/11 at 12:11 PM

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  Dec 21, 2010 9:12 AM

• Last American Troops Leave Vietnam
  Mar 29, 1973

  American troops leave Vietnam on March 29, 1973

• Operation Cedar Falls
  Jan 15, 1973

  President Nixon has ordered a stop to American bombing in North Vietnam after peace talks in Paris.

• Operation Linebacker II
  Dec 13, 1972

  US Bombing Campaign over North Vietnam. It happened when the Paris Negotiations broke down

• Paris Peace Talks
  Oct 1972

  United States and North Vietnam were talking about finishing the war. South Vietnam, who demanded changes that made North Vietnam mad, and peace talks broke off on December 13.

• Operation Linebacker 1
  May 10, 1972

  One of the most successful use of air power in the Vietnam War. after 27,500 pounds of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam, they called a peace treaty

• Bombing of Cambodia
  1970

  Bombed communist base in Cambodia. disrupted enemy supply lines.

• "Vietnamization"
  1969

  President Richard Nixon replaced American soldiers with South Vietnamese soldiers

• "Vietnamization"
  1969

  President Richard Nixon replaced American soldiers with South Vietnamese soldiers

• Election of 1968
  Nov 5, 1968

  Republican Richard Nixon wins the election over Democrat Hubert Humphrey and Independent George Wallace

• My Lai Massacre
  Mar 16, 1968

  most notorious U.S. military atrocity of the Vietnam War. Between 200 an 500 civilians were massacred in this incident

• Battle of the Hue
  Jan 31, 1968

  Bloodiest battles of the Tet Offensive

• Tet Offensive
  Jan 21, 1968

  An Offensive that took place during a cease fire because of the tet

• battle of khe sanh
  Jan 20, 1968

  America attacked the base surrounding Khe Sanh.

• Operation Arc light
  Jun 18, 1965 to Aug 15, 1973

  Missions flown by B-52 bombers 30,000 feet above South Vietnam and Laos for ground support.

• Operation Rolling Thunder
  Mar 2, 1965

  Prolonged bombing campaign on North Vietnam that failed political and military objectives. Stands as the classic example of air power failure
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• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  Aug 10, 1964

  States that America will do whatever necessary to fight communism in Vietnam

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident
  Jul 31, 1964

  US Destroyer Maddox was coasting off the shore off the coast of North Vietnam with extra radio equipment. It was attacked by a North Vietnamese island

• Ho Chi Minh Trail
  May 19, 1955

  A network of roads that stretched from North Vietnam through eastern Laos to South Vietnam, used as a supply road