1954

•France and Vietnam signed an agreement splitting Vietnam in half •Children were separated with relatives and friends that live in the other part of the country•The North was under a communist dictator Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was North Vietnam’s leader

Unhappy kid working in North Vietnam

Vietnam Splits In Two

Child separated from relatives

August 2nd 1964

• Lyndon Johnson passes The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowing the US to use military force in Vietnam. • US sends hundreds of bombs to Vietnam

•184,000 US troops were in Vietnam. Children’s parents had to go to Vietnam.

American soldier in Vietnam Lyndon Johnson is the US president

North Vietnamese boat shot torpedoes at an American ship

Bombs in Vietnam

June 15th 1965

• Houses and shops destroyed

•Many children’s parents died during bombing

• Hundreds of children and adults killed

House destroyed by USA bombs USA plane dropping bombs

USA bombs Hanoi

Child lost a parents during bombing

9:47 a.m. September 2nd 1969

• Ho Chi Minh died because of heart failure

• North Vietnamese still continue to fight against the South

• North Vietnamese kids and adults devastated to lose their leader Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh’s tomb North Vietnamese troops continue to fight

Family sad when Ho Chi Minh died

Ho Chi Minh dies

1973

• 58,000 American troops died in Vietnam

•American children’s parents were killed in Vietnam

• Many troops that left Vietnam were injured

USA troop injured Family welcoming home USA troop

Kid greeting parent from Vietnam war

USA troops leave Vietnam

1975

• Many children died in the Vietnam war

• 1.5 million north and south troops died in the war

• Many children lost their parents in the war

Vietnamese soldiers graves The country unified when war ended

Child died in Vietnam

Vietnam war ended