Read Where the Domino Fell - America And Vietnam 1945-1995 Online
Authors: James S. Olson,Randy W. Roberts
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1967
| Jan. 8 | Operation Cedar Falls begins. |
| 26 | Operation Cedar Falls ends. |
| Feb. 22 | Operation Junction City begins. |
| Apr. 15 | One hundred thousand antiwar protesters rally in New York. |
| May 1 | Ellsworth Bunker replaces Henry Cabot Lodge as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. |
| 9 | Robert Komer appointed deputy to the MACV commander. |
| 14 | Operation Junction City ends. |
| 19 | U.S. planes bomb a power plant in Hanoi. |
| July 7 | Congressional Joint Economic committee estimates the war will cost $4 billion to $6 billion more in 1967 than the $20.3 billion requested by Johnson. |
| Sept. 3 | Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of South Vietnam. |
| 29 | Johnson offers to stop bombing of North Vietnam if they will immediately come to the negotiating table (San Antonio Formula). |
| Oct. 21 | Fifty thousand antiwar activists protest at the Pentagon. |
| Dec. 31 | U.S. military personnel in Vietnam now number 485,600; 16,021 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date. |
1968
| Jan. 3 | Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his decision to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. |
| 21 | NVA siege of Khe Sanh begins. |
| 30 | Tet offensive begins. |
| 31 | Vietcong and NVA capture Hue. General Leonard F. Chapman replaces General Wallace M. Greene as Marine Corps commandant. |
| Feb. 1 | Richard M. Nixon announces his candidacy for the presidency. |
| 25 | ARVN and U.S. troops reconquer Hue. |
| 27 | Westmoreland requests 206,000 more troops. CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite predicts over the evening news that the war cannot be won. |
| Mar. 12 | Eugene McCarthy almost defeats Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. |
| 16 | Senator Robert Kennedy announces his decision to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. My Lai massacre takes place. |
| 25–26 | Senior Advisory Group on Vietnam recommends de-escalation of the American commitment in Vietnam. |
| 31 | Lyndon Johnson announces his decision not to run for reelection. |
| Apr. 23 | Columbia University demonstrations begin. |
| 26 | Two hundred thousand people in New York City demonstrate against the war. |
| 27 | Vice President Hubert Humphrey announces his decision to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. |
| May 3 | Johnson announces that formal peace talks will take place in Paris. |
| 12 | Vietnam peace talks open in Paris. |
| June 6 | Robert Kennedy is assassinated. |
| July 1 | General Creighton Abrams replaces General William Westmoreland as head of MACV. |
| 3 | General William Westmoreland replaces General Harold Johnson as chief of staff, U.S. Army. |
| 31 | Admiral John McCain replaces Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp as CINCPAC. |
| Aug. 28 | Antiwar protests and riots in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. |
| Oct. 31 | Johnson announces end of bombing of North Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder ends. |
| Nov. 5 | Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election. |
| Dec. 31 | U.S. military personnel in Vietnam now number 536,000; 30,610 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date; 65,600 Allied troops in Vietnam. |
1969
| Jan. 22 | Operation Dewey Canyon begins. Richard Nixon inaugurated as president. William Rogers becomes secretary of state. Melvin Laird becomes secretary of defense. Henry Kissinger becomes national security adviser. |
| Mar. 18 | Operation Dewey Canyon ends. Operation Menu begins. |
| 26 | Women Strike for Peace demonstration in Washington, D.C. |
| Apr. 30 | The number of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam reaches 543,300. |
| May 10 | Operation Apache Snow begins. |
| 14 | Nixon proposes peace plan for Vietnam involving mutual troop withdrawal. |
| June 7 | Operation Apache Snow ends. |
| 8 | Nixon announces the removal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam. |
| July 25 | Richard Nixon proclaims the Nixon Doctrine. |
| Aug. 27 | U.S. Ninth Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
| Sept. 3 | Ho Chi Minh dies. |
| Oct. 15 | National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations staged throughout the United States. |
| Nov. 15 | The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam sponsors a demonstration of 250,000 in Washington, D.C. |
| 16 | My Lai massacre described in the press. |
| 30 | U.S. Third Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
| Dec. 11 | U.S. Third Brigade, Eighty-second Airborne Division, withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 31 | U.S. military personnel strength in Vietnam declines to 475,200; 40,024 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date. Allied military personnel in Vietnam totals 70,300. |
1970
| Feb. 20 | Henry Kissinger opens secret peace negotiations in Paris. |
| Mar. 18 | Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia deposed by General Lon Nol. |
| Apr. 15 | U.S. First Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 29 | Operations in Cambodia begin. |
| 30 | United States invades Cambodia. |
| May 4 | National Guard troops kill four students at Kent State University during demonstrations against the Cambodian invasion. |
| June 30 | Operations in Cambodia end. |
| Oct. 11 | U.S. Third Brigade, Ninth Infantry Division, leaves Vietnam. |
| Nov. 21 | Unsuccessful raid on the Son Tay Prison in North Vietnam. |
| Dec. 7 | U.S. Fourth Infantry Division leaves Vietnam. |
| 8 | U.S. Twenty-fifth Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 22 | U.S. Congress prohibits U.S. combat forces or advisers in Cambodia and Laos. |
| 31 | U.S. military personnel strength in Vietnam declines to 334,600; 44,245 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date. Allied military personnel declines to 67,700. |
1971
| Jan. 30 | Operation Lam Son 719 begins. |
| 31 | Winter Soldier Investigation begins in Detroit. |
| Mar. 3 | U.S. Fifth Special Forces Group leaves Vietnam. |
| 5 | U.S. Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 29 | Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr., found guilty of murder. |
| Apr. 6 | Operation Lam Son 719 ends. |
| 14 | U.S. III Marine Amphibious Force withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 20 | Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco call for an end to the war. |
| 29 | U.S. First Cavalry Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 30 | U.S. Second Brigade, Twenty-fifth Infantry Division, withdraws from Vietnam. |
| May 3–5 | People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice demonstrates against the war in Washington, D.C. |
| June 13 | New York Times starts publishing the Pentagon Papers. |
| 30 | Supreme Court allows publication of the Pentagon Papers. |
| Aug. 25 | U.S. 173d Airborne Brigade withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 27 | U.S. First Brigade, Fifth Infantry Division, withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 31 | Royal Thai Army withdraws from Vietnam. |
| Nov. 12 | Nixon confines U.S. ground forces to a defensive role. |
| Dec. 26 | Nixon orders resumption of bombing of North Vietnam. |
| 31 | U.S. military personnel strength declines to 156,800; 45,626 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date. Allied military personnel in Vietnam declines to 53,900. |
1972
| Feb. 21 | Nixon seeks détente with the People’s Republic of China by visiting Beijing. |
| Mar. 10 | U.S. 101st Airborne Division leaves Vietnam. |
| 23 | United States suspends Paris peace talks until North Vietnam and the NLF enter into “serious discussions.” |
| 30 | Eastertide Offensive begins. |
| Apr. 7 | Battle of An Loc begins. |
| 15 | U.S. bombing of Hanoi begins again. |
| 15–20 | Widespread antiwar demonstrations across the United States. |
| 27 | Paris peace talks resume. |
| May 1 | North Vietnamese conquer Quang Tri. |
| 4 | United States suspends the Paris peace talks. |
| 8 | U.S. Navy mines North Vietnamese ports. |
| June 18 | NVA forces an end to the battle of An Loc. |
| 22 | Watergate break-in and arrests. |
| 26 | U.S. Third Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, withdraws from Vietnam. |
| 29 | U.S. 196th Infantry Brigade withdraws from Vietnam. |
| July 1 | General Bruce Palmer, Jr., becomes acting chief of staff, U.S. Army. |
| 13 | Paris peace talks resume after ten weeks. |
| Aug. 23 | U.S. Third Battalion, Twenty-first Infantry, withdraws from Vietnam. |
| Sept. 15 | ARVN forces recapture Quang Tri. |
| 26–27 | Henry Kissinger conducts secret talks with North Vietnamese diplomats in Paris. |
| Oct. 16 | General Creighton Abrams becomes chief of staff, U.S. Army. |
| 17 | Peace talks begin in Laos. |
| 19–20 | Kissinger meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon to secure South Vietnamese support for the pending Paris Peace Accords. |
| Nov. 7 | Nixon is reelected president in a landslide over Senator George McGovern. |
| 20–21 | Kissinger and Le Duc Tho put finishing touches on the Paris Peace Accords. |
| Dec. 13 | Paris peace talks stall. |
| 18–29 | Operation Linebacker II conducted. |
| 31 | U.S. military personnel strength declines to 24,000; 45,926 U.S. military personnel killed in action to date. Allied military personnel drops to 35,500. SVNAF personnel killed in action to date numbers 195,847. |