INDOCHINA MAIN

2 september 1945

Democratic Republic of Vietnam established

12 october 1945

Lao Issara established

1946

fontainebleu conference

1947

truman doctrine

april 1954

geneva accords begin

1955

sihanouk abdicates, People's Socialist Community created

1956

original reunification plans

1957

viet cong insurgency begins

1959

law 10/59 passed

law 10/59

authority to arrest without trial on communism

december 1960

NLF formed

1961

JFK assumes presidency

1962

Strategic Hamlet programs

2 november 1963

diem assassinated

22 november 1963

JFK assassinated

2 august 1964

gulf of tonkin incident

1964

bombing of laos begins

1965

US troops enter Vietnam

1968

Tet Offensive

january 1969

Nixon assumes presidency

4 may 1970

kent state shootings

march 1970

lon nol overthrows sihanouk

30 april 1975

saigon surrenders

58,220 deaths

number of us military deaths

69%

US population favoured a phased withdrawal

1969

first draft lottery

1965-1968

operation rolling thunder

54% to 22% approval rating

$25.3 billion in 1968

us war cost

'peace with honour'

nixon's ideology

domino theory

eisenhower's theory

january 1973

paris peace accords

1953-1956

NV land reform campaign

8 september 1954

SEATO founded

1971 june

pentagon papers released

More than a quarter million tonnes

amount of bombs dropped on cambodia

2 million tonnes

amount of bombs dropped on laos

1968, released 1969

my lai massacre

nixon's vietnamisation

to shift the burden of defeating the communists onto the ARVN

1972 triangulation

us exploitation of sino-soviet split

1969 cambodia

secret bombing begins

1974

nixon resigns rather than face impeachment

feb 1971

lam son 719

lam son 719

attempt to invade laos and cut off ho chi minh trail

environmental impact

40% of indochina became wasteland

1973-1975

us phased withdrawal

½ million

cambodian deaths between 1970-1975

1.5 times more the amount dropped on japan in wwii

cambodia bombing scale

1 million dolars a day

lon nol’s reliance on us aid

580944

amount of laos bombing missions

1500 military advisors, tanks, etc.

laos reliance on soviet aid

600 thousand to 2 million

phnom penh population during civil war