U.S. Wins the Vietnam War (Timeline)

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 * Japan is defeated by the Allies in World War II, leaving a power vacuum in Indochina. France begins to reassert its authority over Vietnam.
 * Ho Chi Minh declares an independent North Vietnam and models his declaration on the American Declaration of Independenceof 1776 in an (unsuccessful) effort to win the support of the United States.
 * After Atomic Bombs Are Dropped On Hiroshima And Nagasaki, The Japanese Offer Surrender In World War II. Russian Troops Enter Korea.
 * After Reaching The 38th Parallel Of Korea, Russian Troops Stop.
 * Syngman Rhee Makes First Public Appearance In South Korea After Years Of Exile.
 * Ho Chi Minh rejects a French proposal granting Vietnam limited self-government and the Viet Minh begins a guerrilla war against the French.
 * UN Passes American Resolution Calling For Free Elections In Korea.
 * Korean Election Day.
 * In North Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of Korea (PRK) Proclaimed.
 * The French install former emperor Bao Dai as head of state in Vietnam.
 * The People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union formally recognize the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam and both begin to supply economic and military aid to communist resistance fighters within the country.
 * Assisted by the Soviet Union and the newly Communist China, the Viet Minh step up their offensive against French outposts in Vietnam.
 * The United States, identifying the Viet Minh as a Communist threat, steps up military assistance to France for their operations against the Viet Minh.
 * In South Korea, Republic Of Korea Elections. Many Conservatives Ousted By Moderates.
 * North Korea Crosses The 38th Parallel, Invading South Korea.
 * First Blair House Meeting.
 * North Korea's Tanks Reach The Outskirts Of Seoul.
 * Truman Commits US Naval And Air Support To South Korea.
 * American Delegate Asks UN To Furnish Assistance To ROK (Republic Of Korea) To Restore International Peace.
 * General MacArthur Flies To South Korean Headquarters At Suwon.
 * With US/UN/ROK Forces Pushed Back Nearly To The End Of The Korean Peninsula, MacArthur Launches The Inchon Invasion.
 * Walker's Eighth Army Makes Contact With X Corps. MacArthur Gives OK For US Forces To Cross The 38th Parallel.
 * Syngman Rhee's Government Ceremonially Restored In Reconquered Seoul.
 * US Army Crosses 38TH Parallel Near Kaesong.
 * Wake Island Meeting
 * US Forces Occupy Pyongyang
 * MacArthur Orders His Troops Into Korea's Northernmost Provinces.
 * South Korean ROK Forces Annihilated By PRC (People's Republic Of China) Forces At Pukchin.
 * First US Vs. Communist Chinese Fighting At Unsan
 * UN Resolution Passed, Censuring North Korea For "Breach Of Peace"
 * Congressional Elections In US, Seen As A Referendum On Truman's Policy.
 * US Marines/Infantry Surrounded By Chinese Communist Forces At Chosin Reservoir.
 * Operation Thunderbolt. US/UN/ROK Forces Go Back On The Offensive.
 * UN Censures People's Republic Of China For "Aggression"
 * Operation Killer Begun.
 * Ridgway Launches Operation Ripper.
 * US/UN/ROK Forces Retake Seoul.
 * MacArthur Unilaterally Issues An Ultimatum To The People's Republic Of China.
 * Congress Endorses NATO, Sends Eisenhower To Head Unified NATO Command.
 * Operation Rugged.
 * Truman Dismisses MacArthur From Command.
 * Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigates MacArthur's Dismissal.
 * Gen. James Van Fleet Assumes Tactical Command Of Eighth Army.
 * All-Out Communist Offensive Fails To Retake Seoul.
 * Truman Announces He Will Not Run For Reelection.
 * Truman Relieves Eisenhower Of Command So He Can Run For President.
 * Washington Authorizes Bombing Korean Power Plants On The Yalu River.
 * US Air Attack On Pyongyang.
 * Rhee Wins Another Clearly Rigged Election.
 * Eisenhower Wins Presidential Election In Landslide.
 * Eisenhower Secretly Goes To Korea On Fact-Finding Mission.
 * Eisenhower Replaces The Frustrated Van Fleet With Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
 * Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies and is replaced by Nikita Khrushchev making him General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 * Peace Treaty Signed At Panmunjom. 38th Parallel Reset As Boundary Between Communist North And Anti-Communist South. The Korean War Ends with a Victory for the United States, and South Korea. South Korea’s Invasion of North Korea is repelled and North Korea’s Invasion of South Korea is repelled.
 * South Korea (Republic of Korea) becomes a Democratic Regime and a Western Alliance Nation with ties to the United States, with U.S. Money and Investments going into South Korea making South Korea prosper making them Second World Nation.
 * North Korea (Democratic Peoples’s Republic of Korea).
 * French troops are humiliated in defeat by Viet Minh forces at Dien Bien Phu. The defeat solidifies the end of French rule in Indochina.
 * U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhowersays the fall of French Indochina to communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. This so-called domino theoryguides U.S. thinking on Vietnam for the next decade.
 * The Geneva Accords establish North and South Vietnam with the 17th parallel as the dividing line. The agreement also stipulates that elections are to be held within two years to unify Vietnam under a single democratic government. These elections never happen.
 * North Vietnam forces begin to build a supply route through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam in an effort to support guerrilla attacks against Diem’s government in the south. The route becomes known as the Ho Chi Minh Trailand is greatly expanded and enhanced during the Vietnam War.
 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnsonbecomes president.
 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnsonbecomes president.
 * USS Maddoxis allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin (the attack is later disputed), leading President Johnson to call for air strikes on North Vietnamese patrol boat bases. Two U.S. aircraft are shot down and one U.S. pilot, Everett Alvarez, Jr., becomes the first U.S. airman to be taken prisoner by North Vietnam.
 * The attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin spur Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorizes the president to “take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force” against any aggressor in the conflict.
 * The Soviet Union increases its support to North Vietnam, sending aircraft, artillery, ammunition, small arms, radar, air defense systems, food and medical supplies. The Soviet Union even sent several Military Forces, Advisors and the KGB. The Soviet Union trained North Vietnamese Troops in their homeland through various Military Schools and Academies and the North Vietnamese Army even trained the Viet Cong the same exact way the Soviet Union trained them. Meanwhile, China sends several engineering troops to North Vietnam to assist in building critical defense infrastructure.
 * U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater wins the Presidency over U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam in Operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid at the U.S. base in the city of Pleiku and at a nearby helicopter base at Camp Holloway.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. The same month, U.S. Marines land on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam.
 * Many Soviet Ships stationed at the Coast of North Vietnam.
 * In several battles in Vietnam between the United States, Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, U.S. Forces encountered several Soviet Troops and Military Advisors.
 * The United States sprays Agent orange and fire to burn the traps and hiding spots the Viet Cong has set up.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater calls for 50,000 more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam, increasing the draft to 35,000 each month.
 * In Operation Starlite, some 5,500 U.S. Marines strike against the First Viet Cong Regiment in the first major ground offensive by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The six-day operation diffuses the Viet Cong regiment, although it would quickly rebuild.
 * U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000.
 * American aircraft attack targets in Hanoi and Haiphong in raids that are among the first such attacks on cities in North Vietnam.
 * Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, Laos and The Philippines sent Military Forces and Aid to South Vietnam to support the United States and South Vietnam fighting the Viet Cong, North Vietnam, China, North Korea and the Soviet Union.
 * U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000.
 * U.S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater sends 700,000 more U.S. Forces into South Vietnam.
 * The Tet Offensivebegins, encompassing a combined assault of Viet Minh and North Vietnamese armies. Attacks are carried out in more than 100 cities and outposts across South Vietnam, including Hue and Saigon, and the U.S. is better prepared.
 * Battles at Hue and Saigon end with American and ARVN victory as Viet Cong guerillas are cleared from the cities.
 * The U.S. decided to keep their Bases and Command Posts and HQ in the Cities because they have better support in the Cities. The Viet Cong regrouped and stayed in the Farm Villages in the Jungles since they were being fed and aided by the Farm Villagers in South Vietnam, and they were supplied by the North Vietnamese Army and Soviet Forces and Supplies from the Chinese Forces stationed in North Vietnam.
 * U.S. President Lyndon Johnson has the U.S. Supreme Court vote in favor of stopping the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War from being published on the Newspapers and not televising the Battles.
 * Because the United States and it’s allies keep their Bases in the Cities, and because the SCOTUS voted to stop the Pentagon Papers on the War from being Published, The Battles aren’t televised, because of this, the American People back home don’t see the atrocities happening live on TV.
 * U.S., Thailand, The Philippines Australia, New Zealand, Laotian Kingdom, Khmer Republic and  South Vietnam crushed the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the Soviet Union bombed a U.S. Air Base in Cambodia. After that South Vietnam and United States invades Laos and destroys the Laotian Pathet.
 * The United States launches a Successful air assault on the Ho Chih Minh Trail, destroying and Shutting off the Trail, stopping the Viet Cong from entering South Vietnam.
 * After the destruction of the Ho Chih Minh Trail, U.S. Forces began to savage and burn the Villages and the Farms throughout the Countryside of South Vietnam.
 * U.S. Forces supplied and rationed the Farmers and Villagers in South Vietnam, giving them enough Supplies  and Food to feed and support themselves and not the Viet Cong, causing them to weaken and starve. This caused the Viet Cong to come out looking for Supplies and Food.
 * U.S. Troops learn about the whereabouts of all Viet Cong Hideout in South Vietnam, after that U.S. Troops began to flood and flush out the Viet Cong Hidden Hideouts, while spraying Agent orange and fire to burn the traps and hiding spots the Viet Cong has set up.
 * U.S, Australian, New Zealander, Thai, Japanese, South Korean, Philippino, Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese Forces wipeout all Viet Cong Guerrillas in South Vietnam.
 * The United States and South Vietnam launches a Massive and Successful Bombing Campaign over North Vietnam, destroying all Chinese Bases, Soviet Ships, North Vietnamese Army Bases, Cities in North Vietnam, aircraft, artillery, ammunition, small arms, radar, air defense systems, food and medical supplies coming from North Korea, China and the Soviet Union, and all Viet Cong locations.
 * Following the Successful bombing raid over North Vietnam, the Viet Cong dissolves. Because that North Vietnam ends their Guerrilla Campaign in the Vietnam War and continues to fight the Vietnam War using a Conventional Warfare Campaign.
 * The Hippie Movement still forms and protests against the Vietnam War, but because of the successful accomplishments in the War, Hippies aren’t able to expand their peace protests and this prevents the protests from occurring especially since the War is made less bloody during their victories while being televised and not scaring the American People watching the War televised LIVE back home.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater wins a Second Term defeating Former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and U.S. Governor George Wallace.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater visits China and the Soviet Union and persuades them isolate North Vietnam and withdraw from the War.
 * After successful negotiations China, Soviet Union and North Korea withdraws all Forces and support from North Vietnam, isolating North Vietnam.
 * The United States and South Vietnam crushes all North Vietnamese Army Forces forcing them to retreat back into North Vietnam.
 * After North Vietnam retreats from South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese Leaders call for a Ceasefire and Negotiate for Peace.
 * U.S. President Barry Goldwater, & all leaders of South Vietnam and North Vietnam all Meet in Saigon, South Vietnam. The Treaty of Saigon is signed after that, The Vietnam War ends with a Victory for the United States, and South Vietnam. South Vietnam’s Invasion of North Vietnam is repelled and North Vietnam’s Invasion of South Vietnam is repelled.
 * South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) becomes a Democratic Regime and a Western Alliance Nation with ties to the United States, with U.S. Money and Investments going into South Vietnam making South Vietnam prosper making them Second World Nation.
 * North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam but soon becomes the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) remains a Communist Regime.
 * United States, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, South Korea, and The Philippines withdraws from South Vietnam. U.S. Troops return back home to a Cheering Chanting Crowd because the United States had won the Vietnam War as the American People view the War as a Massive Victory.
 * Hippies still exist to the present but later they fade away for not gaining the political remembrance for failing to expand their protests for peace.
 * Many more people began to trust the U.S. Government even more despite any scandals politicians might causer get themselves into.
 * After the United States won The Korean War and The Vietnam War, The United States becomes so enthusiastic about their Victories and become more motivated to fight more Wars in other Nations around the world believing it would lead to a U.S. Victory because it worked in Korea and Vietnam.