1914, Vietnamese Account of Mistreatment at the Hands of French Colonial Officials (Ho Chi Minh)

1919, Paris Peace Conference

1919, Claims of the Annamite (Vietnamese) People (Ho Chi Minh)

1930, Ho Chi Minh founded the Indochinese Communist Party

1940, Japan seized French Indochina

1941, Ho Chi Minh founded the Viet Minh

1941, Call for the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh) 

1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorandum on Vietnam

1945, Bao Dai appointed Emperor

1945, Ho Chi Minh supplanted Bao Dai

1945, Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

1945 (September 2), Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

1946 (Feb. 16), Ho Chi Minh Letter to President Truman

1946 (Feb. 26), Telegram from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry S. Truman

1946, First Indochina War began

1947 (February 3), Secretary of State John Marshall to the US Embassy in France

1949, Elysee Accords

1949 (May 20), Telegram Secretary of State Dean Acheson to the US Consulate in Hanoi

1950, The United States began to aid France

1954, Battle of Dien Bien Phu

1954, The Geneva Accords

1954 (July 21), Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on the Problem of Restoring Peace in Indo-China

1954 (July 22) "Long Live Peace, Unity, Independence, and Democracy in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh)

1954, Letter from President Eisenhower to President Diem

1955, Ho Chi Minh in North Vietnam

1955, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam

1956 (June 1), Senator John F. Kennedy Speech on Vietnam 

1960, National Liberation Front and Viet Cong formed

1960, Program of the National Liberation Front of South Viet-Nam

1961 (December 15), Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem

1962, Strategic Hamlet Program introduced

1963, (June 11) Malcolm Browne writing about the June 11 Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc

1963, Ngo Dinh Diem overthrown