* 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.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).

* 1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers ( men, women, and children ) are killed by American troops.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.

Air supply failed to prevent the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the Vietnamese in 1954 but proved crucial in maintaining the American base at Khe Sanh in 1968.

* Jeremiah Denton repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during the 1966 televised press conference that he was forced into as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors, spelling out the word, " T-O-R-T-U-R-E ".

* September 3 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese American actress ( b. 1973 )

* February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

Ask the Cubans, the Vietnamese or urban American blacks what lengths the system is willing to go to, to preserve itself.

As inhabitants of the more mountainous regions of Laos, the Hmong people earned a special place in the hearts of American combat soldiers because of their strong support for the United States in its fight against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.

However, South Vietnamese Premier Ngô Đình Diệm, who preferred American sponsorship to French, rejected the agreement.

The racial makeup of Vacaville was 61, 301 ( 66. 3 %) White, 9, 510 ( 10. 3 %) African American, 846 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 5, 606 ( 6. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 3 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Indian, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Korean ), 532 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander, 8, 136 ( 8. 8 %) from other races, and 6, 497 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Fairfield was 48, 407 ( 46. 0 %) White, 16, 586 ( 15. 7 %) African American, 869 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 15, 700 ( 14. 9 %) Asian ( 9. 1 % Filipino, 1. 8 % Indian, 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 2 % Thai, 0. 1 % Pakistani ), 1, 149 ( 1. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 301 ( 12. 6 %) from other races, and 9, 309 ( 8. 8 %) from two or more races.

The North Vietnamese claimed that Maddox was hit by one torpedo, and one of the American aircraft had been shot down.

He emphasized commitment to both the American people, and the South Vietnamese government.

In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2.

This is the case for Vietnamese ( a true alphabet ) and Thai ( an abugida ).

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

Vietnamese academic and journalist Doan Viet Hoat was nicknamed " the Sakharov of Vietnam " for his criticism of Vietnam's communist leadership and his subsequent imprisonment.

) In Vietnamese cuisine, jellies made of flavored layers of agar agar, called thạch, are a popular dessert, and are often made in ornate molds for special occasions.

Khmers are persecuted by the Vietnamese government for using their native language and, since the 1950s, have been forced to take Vietnamese names.

It generally has been influenced by Vietnamese for three centuries and accordingly displays a pronounced accent, tendency toward monosyllablic words and lexical differences from the standard.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

The US had already been bombing Vietnamese positions in Cambodia for well over a year by that point.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

In 1983, Cork Graham and Richard Knight went looking for Captain Kidd's buried treasure off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc.

:* Vietnamese uses the horn diacritic for the letters ơ and ư ; the circumflex for the letters â, ê, and ô ; the breve for the letter ă ; and a bar through the letter đ.

In East Asia, the translation for dharma is 法, pronounced fǎ in Mandarin, beop in Korean, hō in Japanese, and pháp in Vietnamese.

* Dong ( name ), Vietnamese for the season of winter

* Lá dong, Vietnamese for a type of prayer-plant ( Phrynium placentarium )

It is used as a marinade for Vietnamese broiled chicken.

Communist leaders like Mao Zedong and North Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh both implemented guerrilla warfare giving it a theoretical frame which served as a model for similar strategies elsewhere, such as the Cuban " foco " theory and the anti-Soviet Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.

By contrast, the U. S. admitted more than 100, 000 Vietnamese refugees for resettlement during the Vietnam War.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

He responded, “ All Vietnamese people are the children of Uncle Hồ .” When asked again about the rumor in January 2002 by a Time Asia reporter, he denied he is Hồ's son and stated that his father was named Nông Văn Lai and his mother Hoàng Thị Nhị.

All of the above features are characteristic of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Hmong, and Standard Tibetan, despite belonging to numerous different language families.

All important decisions regarding the strategy and tactics of the fledgling Vietnamese anti-colonial revolutionary movement during this interval were made in Canton.

All that prevented the company-strength North Vietnamese onslaught from overrunning the entire battalion was the heroic efforts of American paratroopers who stood their ground and died to buy time for their comrades.

All three Vietnamese combatant governments: North Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ), and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam ( PRG ) would remain intact, as would their separate armies.

All U. S. and South Vietnamese air assets were diverted to first slowing, and then halting the onslaught.

In 2005, he published a collection of essays, Perfume Dreams, about the problem of identity as a Vietnamese living in the U. S. Lam received the PEN Open Book Award ( formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award ) in 2006 for Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

All these researchers now have the benefit of drawing on populations of the " first waves " of internationally adopted people who have now reached adulthood, as seen in the rise of Korean and Vietnamese adoptee groups alone.

All of the Vietnamese coastal forts were destroyed and three Nguyễn junks were sunk before the French squadron sailed away.

All the Vietnamese refugees had repatriated by the UNHCR.