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Vietnam Timeline

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VIETNAM TIMELINE

BY: MEGAN HARDY

ON JANUARY 1968 THE NORTH VIETNAMESE

LAUNCHED THE TET OFFENSIVE.

ON FEBRUARY 1968 THE BATTLE OF HUE TOOK PLACE

IT WAS A 26 DAY LONG BATTLE BETWEEN THE NORTH VIETNAMESE AND THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE.

ON MARCH 16, 1968 THE

MY LAI MASSACRE TOOK PLACE.

IN APRIL MLK WAS ASSASSINATED

IN MAY NORTH VIETNAMESE AND U.S. TROOPS

START TALKING ABOUT THE PARIS PEACE TALK.

IN JUNE ROBERT KENNEDY WAS ASSASINATED.

IN AUGUST THERE WAS A UPHEAVAL AT THE

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN CHICAGO.

IN NOVEMBER RICHARD NIXON WAS ELECTED

PRESIDENT.

IN 1969 NIXON BEGAN THE SECRET BOMBING

ON CAMBODIA.

IN 1970 THE KENT STATE

INCIDENT OCCURS.

IN 1971 THE PENTAGON PAPERS WERE PUBLISHED.

IN 1972 THE SECRET PEACE TALK WAS REVEALED.

ALSO IN 1972 THE B-52 BOMBERS BOMB

HANOI AND HAIPHONG.

ALSO IN 1972 KISSINGER SAYS THAT "PEACE IS AT HAND".

IN 1973 THE CEASE FIRE WAS SIGNED IN PARIS.