Berkeley Vietnam Day Committee organizes a campus protest and teach-in

U.S. aircraft launched a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam, intended to pressure Hanoi and support the South Vietnamese government. The gradual escalation devastated infrastructure...

U.S. Marines landed at Da Nang, beginning the large-scale deployment of U.S. ground combat forces. The mission moved beyond advising and aid into direct combat, while South Vietnamese forces and...

Faculty and students at the University of Michigan held an overnight teach-in on U.S. policy in Vietnam. The format turned the university into a public forum for debate and helped antiwar organizing...

Thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., for an early large-scale protest against the war. Speakers linked U.S. intervention abroad to questions of democratic accountability and domestic priorities,...

U.S. officials documented an abortive coup effort involving Phạm Ngọc Thảo and other officers. Repeated plots signaled that the succession of military governments lacked stable consent and that U.S....

National Liberation Front forces overran key positions in Đồng Xoài and fought South Vietnamese and U.S.-supported units. The battle highlighted the vulnerability of provincial towns and the limits of...

Johnson announced that U.S. forces in Vietnam would rise from about 75,000 to 125,000 and that conscription would expand. The understated announcement marked a decisive shift to a large U.S. ground...

U.S. Marines launched Operation Starlite against NLF forces near Chu Lai, one of the first major U.S. ground offensives. Civilian communities were caught within an expanding battle space, as U.S....

Antiwar groups in the United States and abroad organized protests under the banner of the International Days of Protest. The actions connected opposition to the war with a wider critique of U.S....

U.S. and People’s Army forces fought in the Ia Drang Valley in the first major sustained ground battle between U.S. troops and North Vietnamese regulars. Helicopter mobility and air power shaped the...