VIETNAM WAR TIMELINE

In 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to south Vietnam after being inaugurated.

By the end of 1965, the U.S. government had sent more than 180,000 Americans to Vietnam

May 1966 Buddhist monks and nuns burned themselves in protest against the South Vietnamese government.

August 1967 President Johnson asked for a tax increase to help fund the war and to keep up with inflation.

On January 30th 1968 over 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam, as well as 12 U.S. air bases were attacked by North Vietnam.

Following the Tet offensive; Johnson's popularity plummeted. In public opin ion polls taken at the end of February 1968, nearly 60 percent of Americans dis approved of his handling of the war.

In a televised address on March 31, 1968, Johnson announced a dramatic change in his Vietnam policy the United States would seek negotiations to end the war

The chaos and violence of 1968 climaxed in August, when thousands of antiwar demonstrators converged on the city of Chicago to protest at the Democratic National Convention.

In 1968, Nixon announced his candidacy for president and won the party's nomination

August 28, 1968
During the Democratic national convention in Chicago, 10,000 anti-war protesters gather on downtown streets and are then confronted by 26,000 police and national guardsmen. The brutal crackdown is covered live on network TV. 800 of the demonstrators were injured.

October 1968
Operation Sealord begins the largest combined naval operation of the entire war as over 1200 U.S. Navy and South Vietnamese Navy gunboats and warships target NVA supply lines extending from Cambodia into the Mekong Delta.

October 31, 1968 - Operation Rolling Thunder ends as President Johnson announces a complete halt of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam in the hope of restarting the peace talks.

November 5, 1968 - Republican Richard M. Nixon narrowly defeats Democrat Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election.

November 27, 1968 - President-elect Nixon asks Harvard professor Henry Kissinger to be his National Security Advisor, Kissinger accepts.

On March 29,1973, the last U.S. combat troops left for home. For America, the Vietnam War had ended.

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