VIETNAM:

Course description and books

Course Guide Supplementary Material

Part Three covers the period from the Gulf Tonkin Resolution in 1964 under U.S. President Johnson until Nixon’s assumption of that office in early 1969. This was the period of war escalation:

• 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President unprecedented war powers in Vietnam | Was the attack provoked by the U.S.?
• 1964: First bombing of North Vietnam by U.S. & beginning of official U.S. fighting against North Vietnam
• 1965 Rolling Thunder & U.S. ground troops
• 1965-68: Massive episodes of U.S. bombing; war escalates
• 1965: Ky and Thieu take leadership of South Vietnam after coup
• 1965: Anti-war protests in U.S. enlarged: campus "teach-ins" and demonstrations--Timeline of Peace Activism
• 1968: Tet Offensive
• 1968: President Johnson chooses not to run for reelection | Nixon is elected U.S. President

A Cross-National, Interdisciplinary Perspective

From Birth to Re-Birth
208 BC - 1945

Defeat of the French and
Entrance of the U.S.
1945-1964

The U.S. - Vietnam War, Escalation Phase
1964-1968

The End of the War and Aftermath,
1968-present

Developed by David L. Elliott