Viet Nam War
They present an overview of the major events to
take place in the Viet Nam War. This selection does not cover
the causes of the war, nor does it cover the final events from
the invasion of the Cambodia to the final North Vietnamese
victory in Saigon

The start of the Vietnam WaR Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown  and killed in a coup d'etat in 1963 by his own generals causing political confusion in South Vietnam. The security in South Vietnam continued to deteriorate putting the Communists in reach of a victory. By 1965, the US president Lyndon Johnson approved regular bombing of North Vietnam to prevent the total collapse of the Saigon regime by the dispatch of troops and marking their overt entry into the war. United States forces landed at Da Nang and began fighting in Vietnam.

    The US intervention caused problems for the Communists, forcing them to  continually send North Vietnamese armies to the South, but this did not deter them from the struggle. This situation was challenged in January 1968 when the Vietcong staged the bloody The Offensive by simultaneously attacking over 40 towns and  cities in the South, but they failed to capture any. The Johnson administration decided to pursue a negotiated settlement. After Ho Chi Minh died in 1969 and was succeeded by Le Duan, the new US President Nixon continued the policy of ex President Johnson and gradually withdrew US troops.

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