Existing comment:
1965
* President Lyndon B. Johnson orders air attacks on North Vietnam and deploys ground troops to South Vietnam[fig.]
* First "teach-in" against the war is held at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
* First major public demonstrations take place in the United States, both protesting and supporting the war
* First major engagement between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces takes place in Battle of Ia Drang
* As American military presence increases, the number of Western journalists in Vietnam skyrockets
* U.S. troop levels in Vietnam at the end of 1965: 184,300 |