30 March 2011, 8:35 pm
Can someone help me put these events in order? 1. Geneva Accords divide Vietnam 2. The Vietcong Begin war against the Diem Regime 3. The Tonkin Gulf incident occurs 4. SV army officers stage a coup and assassinate Diem 5. US Marines land at Danang as LBJ escalates US involvement in Vietnam 6. Ngo Dinh Diem gains control of South Vietnam 7. JFK sends special forces troops to South Vietnam 8. Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Revolution 9. Robert Mcnamara begins to argue that the war cannot be won 10. Buddhist monks set themselves on fire on busy SV streets to oppose Diem... Read More »