Balance of Terror, 1961-1975

Containment

Bay of Pigs (Kennedy v. Khrushchev)

Fidel Casto and Cuba

Operation Mongoose

Berlin Crisis

Cuba Missile Crisis

Vietnam

Origins of American involvement

South Vietnam, 1949 (Bao Dia)

Replacing the French

Dien Bien Phu, 1954

Ho Chi Minh

Geneva Accords, 1956, 17^th parallel

Escalation, 1955 – 68

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Coup against Diem, 1963

Johnson

“Americanization”

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

National Liberation Front, (a.k.a.) Vietcong

Tet Offensive, January 1968

De-escalation, 1968 – 73

Johnson

Nixon

“Vietnamization”

Invasion of Cambodia

Cease Fire Agreement, 1973

Fall of Saigon, 1975