Timeline+of+the+War

== =Time line of The War= **R**
 * **1962**: Oration chopper; Americas first combat mission against the Vietcong
 * Operation Ranchhand: the oblective was to clear vegetation making it difficult for the Vietcong to ambush
 * 1**963**: Battle of AP Bac where the Vietcong defeat the south Vietnamese army
 * President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas and Lyndon B Johnson takes over presidency
 * 1**964**: USS Maddox fires upon torpedo boats
 * 1**965**: operation Rolling thunder begins
 * US Marines land at Danang
 * **1966** President Johnson meets with South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky in Honolulu
 * **1967** Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out about the war and his feelings about it
 * Operation Cedar Falls begins
 * **1969**  The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.

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