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1946 Ho Chi Minh
elected the President of North Vietnam
1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam
into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
1954 Vietnam War
: The Viet Minh
takes control of North Vietnam.
1964 Vietnam War
: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnam
ese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1964 Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - Aircraft from carriers USS ''Ticonderoga''
and USS ''Constellation'' bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
.
1965 The U.S. begins the regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages.
1965 Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam
, the first major engagement of the war between regular American
and North Vietnamese forces begins.
1965 The Soviet Union
announces that it has shipped rockets to North Vietnam.
1966 North Vietnam declares general mobilization
.
1967 Vietnam War
: The People's Republic of China
agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
1967 Vietnam War
: Operation Swift begins - The United States
Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
1967 Vietnam War
: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk
states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
1967 Vietnam War
: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
announces his pending resignation, to become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam
.
1968 Vietnam War
: Citing progress in the Paris
peace talks, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon
asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodia
n government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol
by the Khmer Rouge
and North Vietnam).
1972 Vietnam War
: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam
.
1972 Vietnam War
: Nguyen Hue offensive - Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States
resumes bombing of Hanoi
and Haiphong
.
1973 Vietnam War
: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon
announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1975 Vietnam War
: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam
, on their way to capturing Saigon.
1976 North Vietnam and South Vietnam
unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- a Communist country.
1992 The trial of 14 South Vietnamese
accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese
begins in Hong Kong
(ends November 29, 1994).
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