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Vietnam and War
In keeping with the times, much of anthropology became politicized through the Algerian War of Independence and opposition to the Vietnam War ; Marxism became an increasingly popular theoretical approach in the discipline.
Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).
Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
* 1964 Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.
* 1964 Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
* 1967 Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.
Collins connected it to the Vietnam War, to which she objected: " I didn't know what else to do about the war in Vietnam.
Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.
* 1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
* 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U. S. begins to evacuate U. S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover.
* 1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
* 1964 Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.
* 1966 Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.
* 1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
* 1966 Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
* 1971 Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
* 1972 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

Vietnam and 1954
In 1954, Ike articulated the domino theory in his outlook towards communism in Southeast Asia and also in Central America ; he believed that if the communists were allowed to prevail in Vietnam, this would cause a succession of countries to fall to communism, from Laos through Malaysia and Indonesia ultimately to India.
In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to " Free Vietnam " ( the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955 ), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.
* 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
* 1954: French Empire begins to be dismantled after suffering defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.
* 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
* 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
* 1954 First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
During the Vietnam War the battles of Dien Bien Phu ( 1954 ) and Khe Sanh ( 1968 ) possessed siege-like characteristics.
French rule ended in Algeria in 1958, Vietnam left French Indo-china in 1954.
After their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 France granted independence to the nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
At the Geneva Conference of 1954 France and the Communists agreed to divide Vietnam and hold elections in 1956.
* December 19 Viet Minh forces begin a war against French occupying forces in Vietnam, succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at Dien Bien Phu.
* Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.
Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam, although the Bảo Đại government continued to rule in South Vietnam.
The events of 1954 marked the beginnings of serious United States involvement in Vietnam and the ensuing Vietnam War.
Laos and Cambodia also became independent in 1954, but were both drawn into the Vietnam War.
Wilson consistently avoided any commitment of British forces, giving as reasons British military commitments to the Malayan Emergency and British co-chairmanship of the 1954 Geneva Conference which agreed the cessation of hostilities and internationally supervised elections in Vietnam.
In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.
With the fall of Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 to the Viet Minh, French control of Vietnam collapsed and Bảo Đại needed foreign help to sustain his State of Vietnam.

Vietnam and
* 1945 August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
* 1963 Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
* 1970 Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
* 1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.

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