Aparicion, Mallarino, Lomano

1. Vietnam War 1955 - 1755 Jorge Aparicio, Nicolás Lomanto, Camilo Mallarino

3. ThewarstartsonNovember 1 of 1955

4. The US government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.- Communist governments take power in Cambodia and Laos. - War between two countries to take power of territory.

7. Two-thirds of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers, two-thirds who served in World War II were draftees.

9. In 1956 the French left Vietnam, and the US government began training troops in south Vietnam.

10. 1957 First communist attack against the capitalists.

11. 1960 John F. Kennedy elected as US president. The Vietcong guerrilla was formed.

12. 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and Diem´s palace bombed by the communist part.

13. 1963 Kennedy and Diem assassinated.

15. 1969 Vietnamization process or policy begin to take place in Vietnamese territory leaded by Nixon. Ho Chi Minh dies.

17. 1972 US troops cut by 70000. Nixon re-elected president and secret peace talks revealed.

18. 1973 Cease fire signed in Paris. Last American troops left Vietnam.

20. 1978 Vietnam entered to the United Nations. Vietnam invade Cambodia.

22. 1985 Vietnam Veterans honored throughout the US parades.