Key Events in World War II and Vietnam Wars Cartes | Quizlet

Gallipoli landing by Churchill

1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

The Middle East partition agreement made in 1916.

Home Front reactivation in the UK

1938, during the Munich Crisis.

ARP recruitment in the UK

Early 1939.

Conscription for men in the UK

1939

Famous UK poster in 1939

"Keep calm and carry on."

UK events on September 1, 1939

Nationalization of the railways + internment of "enemy aliens."

British Ministry of Information propaganda strategy

Defined in March 1940.

Churchill becoming British Prime Minister

May 1940.

Italy entering the war

June 1940, leading to the internment of Italian nationals in the UK.

Fear of German invasion in the UK

June to September 1940.

Key domestic measure in the UK in 1940

Rationing + Call for volunteers for the Home Guard.

Women enlisted for service in the UK

1941

Women's Voluntary Service membership in 1942

Exceeded one million members.

Arrival of American troops in the UK

From 1942 to 1945.

Allotment gardens in the UK in 1943

3.5 million.

Normandy Landings (D-Day)

Took place on June 6, 1944.

Allied troops stationed in the UK in 1944

Over 2 million.

Montgomery accepting German northern army surrender

May 4, 1945.

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

August 6, 1945.

Cold War official end

1991

Ho Chi Minh proclaiming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

September 2, 1945.

First Indochina War beginning

December 19, 1946.

End of the First Indochina War

The fall of Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954.

US replacing France in South Vietnam

1954

Geneva Accords

Divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel on July 21, 1954.

Diem proclaiming the Republic of Vietnam

1955

National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) founded

1960

Use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail beginning

1960

ARVN failing to contain the NLF

1961

South Vietnamese rural areas under Viet Cong control

1963

Coup and assassination of Diem

November 2, 1963, supported by the US.

Kennedy assassination and American advisors in Vietnam

November 22, 1963 — about 16,000 advisors.

Gulf of Tonkin incident

August 2-7, 1964.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Passed on August 7, 1964.

First US combat troops arriving in Vietnam

March 1965.

Operation Rolling Thunder beginning

1965

First teach-ins and major anti-war protests in the US

1965 (Major protest: October 15-16).

American soldiers in Vietnam in 1968

About 536,000.

Tet Offensive beginning

January 31, 1968.

My Lai Massacre occurrence

March 16, 1968.

Johnson announcing he would not seek re-election

Late March 1968.

Johnson halting bombing in North Vietnam

May 1968.

Secret peace talks in Paris beginning

Spring 1968.

Nixon becoming president

January 20, 1969.

My Lai Massacre revealed to the public

Late 1969.

Woodstock Festival

Took place August 15-18, 1969.

Vietnam Moratorium Day

October 15, 1969.

March Against Death

November 15, 1969.

US military intervention in Cambodia

Began in late April 1970.

Kent State shootings

Took place on May 4, 1970.