Your mum was made president in
Truman made the Truman Doctrine in , vowing to contain communism and put billion dollars into China to help the Nationalists who fell to the Communists in
Kim Il Sung ordered the invasion of South Korea in , backed by Russia
The USA blocked China from joining the UN in
countries contributed troops to the UN force in Korea but the majority were American
After the South Korean force pushed up from and the UN force from , they advanced towards the River and in 1950, Chinese troops launched an attack
By (month) (year) the UN forces were driven out of by the Chinese who were committed to communism, taught to hate the Americans and supplied by modern tanks and planes by the
In 1951 Truman removed MacArthur from his position and brought him back to the USA
After stalling for two years, a peace agreement was signed in Panmunjom in (month) (year), marking peace in Korea
The USA lost troops in Korea and it's defense spending rose from billion US dollars to billion US dollars
Korea had million casualties in the war
In , the South East Asia Treaty Organisation was founded
The Viet Minh declared Vietnam independent for the first time in after taking control of Hanoi (the capital of Vietnam)
After years of fighting in Vietnam they lost the battle of Dien Bein Phu, where they lost troops. Despite receiving million yearly from America
In 1961, there were Vietcong fights in S-Vietnam
Eisenhower, US president from till , sent billion of aid to the South Vietnamese government between 1954 and 1960
Kennedys first act towards the war was to send military advisors
By the time America fully committed to the war in Vietnam the combined Vietcong, NVA force, totalled
% of US casualties came from booby traps and % from small ambushes
Between 1966 and 1971, civilians were killed from working with the South Vietnamese government by the Vietcong
The infamous My Lai Massacre in killed
Operation Rolling Thunder lasted from till
It was estimated it cost dollars to kill every Viet Cong fighter. At its height the war cost billion yearly
Due to the drafting occuring from , there were who had low morale and eventually deserted
Nixon used his policy of Vietnamisation and withdrew troops by the end of 1971
First negative footage was in when TV footage showed marines setting fire to homes
In Walter Cronkite, a trusted news reader, famously said the war was unwinnable, marking a change of view for the public
In , the Kent State Massacre happened and students were killed
% of African Americans were sent to war compared to % of white Americans. Sparking Martin Luther King to speak out
In (month) (year) in Paris a peace agreement was signed by North and South Vietnam and the USA
In April North Vietnam had captured Saigon
The Vietnamese war had a large cost, the USA spent billion dollars in total which is almost a trillion today
The Vietnamese war had Americans and million Vietnamese troops killed and million civilians killed
