A timeline of events leading up to and surrounding ... becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War. Following a breakdown in negotiations, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh forces begin a war ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country, state or territory ruled over by another country, state or territory. before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two.