Critical Dates of the Viet Nam Conflict 
  [Dean of Language Arts John K. Swensson's Web page]

  Tonkin Gulf:

• 30-Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War

• Tonkin Gulf 
  ["About History" web site: do a search on Tonkin Gulf - 
  will result in web sites on this subject]

  Dien Bien Phu:

• Dien Bien Phu: 1954 battle changed Vietnam's history

• Senator John F. Kennedy, Speaking about Indochina, April 6, 1954 
  ["I am frankly of the belief that no amount of American military 
  assistance in Indochina can conquer an enemy which is everywhere 
  and at the same time nowhere, "an enemy of the people" which has
  the sympathy and covert support of the people."]

  Ia Drang Valley:

• Joe Galloway's great Web site on the battle at LZ Xray from his book,
  WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE, AND YOUNG
   

• Ia Drang Valley

  Khe Sanh:

• Khe Sanh Veterans Reunion

• Khe Sanh [map, personal accounts, chronology, statistics, links]

  Tet Offensive:

• TET OFFENSIVE, 1968: Turning Point in the Vietnam War  [a link page]

• Surprised at Tet: U.S. Naval Forces in Vietnam, 1968

• Gulf Of Tonkin Notebook [a link page]

• The Tet Offensive 1968: General Vo Nguyen Giap

• A Turning Point in the Vietnam War
  [General Giap: "For us, there is no such thing as a single strategy.
  Ours is always a synthesis, simultaneously military, political and diplomatic -
  which is why quite clearly, the Tet offensive had multiple objectives."]

  The Ho Chi Minh Trail:

• The Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Son Tay Prison Raid:

• US Air Force Museum

• Canadian POW MIA Information Centre

• By Lt. Gen. LeRoy J. Manor

  Long Tan:

• The Battle of Long Tan: 
  Australia's Most Important Battle in Viet Nam

  My Lai:

• Massacre at My Lai

• The My Lai Court-Martial 1970

• CNN Coverage of March 1998 Ceremonies Honoring My Lai Hero

• The My Lai Courts-Martial: Links & Bibliography

  The Fall of Saigon:

• The Fall of Saigon: the Marine Association

• The Bitter End

• NY Times: the Fall of Saigon

• Saigon: the Final 10 Days [Time Magazine]

• Revising the History of the Fall of Saigon, by Mark McDonald

  History and Reconciliation 
 [American Radio Works: Revisiting Vietnam]

  Vietnam: A Country History  
 [lots of links about the country in general]

  Veterans Now Guiding Troops Impart Painful Lessons  

  Vietnam Timeline Online: 1945-1997

  Battlefield Vietnam [A PBS Web site]

  Vietnam: 1954-1968 [A CNN Web site]

  The Flags

  The Events: A Chronology of US Involvement in the Vietnam War

  Documents Relating to Foreign Policy: Vietnam

  Characteristics of the Vietnam War

  National Liberation Front (NLF) 

  History: the Vietnam War [Information portal with many links]

   The Vietnam War Declassification Project: April 2000