Timelines & Dates
( ******* John, I did not check the links on this page ******** )
Critical Dates of the Viet Nam Conflict
John Swensson's page.
United States in Vietnam 1945-1975
Comprehensive Timelines with Quotes and Analysis - excellent site.
Interactive Wartime Chronology: VIETNAM, 1945-1975
Vietnam Timeline Online: 1945-1997
The Events: A Chronology of US Involvement in the Vietnam War
Dien Bien Phu: 1954 battle changed Vietnam's history
The Geneva Peace Accords, July 21, 1954
The American Response to the Geneva Declarations, July 21, 1954
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), September 8, 1954
President Eisenhower's Letter of Support to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954
Law 10/59, May 6, 1959: Excerpts from Law 10/59, Diem's repressive
legislation against suspected Communists
Duong Loi Cach Nang Mien Nam [The Path of Revolution in the South], 1956
The southern Communists' statement of opposition to the U.S.-Diem regime
and commitment to armed violence.
Rusk-McNamara Report to Kennedy, November 11, 1961
Phone Conversation between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge, November 1,1963
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 6-7, 1964
McGeorge Bundy Memo to President Johnson, February 7, 1965
Excerpts from Bundy's memo to Johnson, advocating "sustained reprisal against North
Vietnam" in response to the NLF attack on two U.S. army installations.
Thu Vao Nam [Letters to the South], 1965
The Hanoi Politburo's letter to the Communist Party in the South, outlining the Party's
commitment to a protracted war strategy.
National Security Action Memorandum Number 328, April 6,1965
Memo signed by McGeorge Bundy and addressed to the Secretary of State, Secretary
of Defense, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, documenting Johnson's
approval of a 20,000-man increase in U.S. military support for South Viet Nam.
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's Memo to President Johnson,
July 20, 1965
A summary of McNamara's memo advocating further increases in the number of combat
troops committed to Viet Nam.
Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peace Proposal, June 26, 1971
Hanoi's peace proposal, presented at the Paris talks in 1971.
Peace Proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of
South Viet Nam, July 1, 1971
The Southern Communists' peace proposal, presented at the 1971 Paris talks.
President Nixon's Speech to the American Public, November 3, 1969
Nixon's "Vietnamization" plan.
President Nixon's Speech to the American Public, April 30, 1970
Nixon's justification of the offensive in Cambodia.
The Paris Accords, January 27, 1973
Excerpts from the Paris peace agreement, formally concluding the war
between the United States and North Viet Nam.