May 1961: President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.
November 1963: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
February 1965: President Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam in Operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid at the U.S. base in the city of Pleiku and at a nearby helicopter base at Camp Holloway.
July 1965: President Johnson calls for 50,000 more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam, increasing the draft to 35,000 each month.
1966: U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000. 1967: U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000.
February 1967: U.S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields.
March 1968: President Johnson halts bombing in Vietnam north of the 20th parallel.
November 1968: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the U.S. presidential elections on the campaign promises to restore “law and order” and to end the draft.
December 1972: President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war in Operation Linebacker.
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Worried about changing their lives that they had when Britain was in control
People thought the constitution was going to help out the rich more than the poor
Some thought other weren’t going to follow it
Some thought the rules were too harsh to the people
