Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son My.
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Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North Vietnam.
The final agreement signed on 27 January 1973 called for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of all US combat forces within sixty days, and the return of American prisoners of war.
After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the jungle.
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
Operation Ranch Hand was part of a strategy by the U.S. to counter the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces by targeting agricultural areas and forest cover with chemicals such as Agent Orange.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted powers to President Johnson to use American military force to assist countries in Southeast Asia that were facing so-called ‘communist aggression’.
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.
The withdrawal of the last regular American troops from South Vietnam ended eight years of direct US military involvement in Vietnam.
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