13 Confrontation in the Vietnam War DATES

Johnson agrees to the implementation of OPLAN 34A

January 1964

Johnson increases the number of military ‘advisers’ from…

16,300 to 23,300

Congress agrees on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

7th August 1964

The situation in Vietnam was deteriorating for the USA…

By the end of 1964

After a Vietcong attack on an army barracks and a US helicopter base in Pleiku, followed by further attacks, Johnson orders Operation Rolling Thunder.

February 1965

The first US combat troops arrive near Danang

March 1965

Vietnam offers a four-point proposal

8th April 1965

Johnson publically announces his decision to escalate the USA’s military involvement in Vietnam

28th July 1965

By July 1965, the USA had deployed ______ ground troops in Vietnam

75,000

The first significant engagement between the US forces and the forces of North Vietnam takes place in the Ia Drang Valley in the Central Highlands.

November 1965

President Kennedy approves Operation Ranch Hand

1962

Search and destroy is the primary strategy among the US leadership from

1965 to 1968

The Tet Offensive takes place

January-February 1968

On ________________, communist troops had entered Hue but it was not until ____________________ that the South Vietnamese flag was able to fly over the city again.

31 January 1968, 24 February

President Johnson announces that he did not intend to stand for re-election

March 1968

Lyndon B. Johnson becomes US President

November 1963