1950
Korean War begins
1952
First hydrogen bomb tested by United States
1953
Korean War ends with cease-fire armistice
(My Note; notice a mere two years from ending Korean War, U.S. begins sending Advisors into Vietnam)
1955
28 protesters, including Dorothy Day and A.J. Muste, refuse to participate in national civil defense drill
U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam to train South Vietnamese army
1957
Committee for Non-Violent Action founded by members of War Resisters League and Catholic Worker Movement
Linus Pauling, Homer Jack and Norman Cousins form the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE)
1958
CNVA member Albert Bigelow sails Golden Rule into area of scheduled H-bomb tests. After Bigelow’s arrest, Earle Reynolds sails The Phoenix into testing site.
1959
President Eisenhower initiates moratorium on atmospheric testing
Campus-based Student Peace Union formed
1960
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber
CNVA organizes grassroots protest in New London, CT against the Polaris nuclear submarine
20,000 people attend SANE rally for nuclear disarmament at Madison Square Garden
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 900
1961
Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson found Women Strike for Peace
Physicians for Social Responsibility formed in response to atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the threat of nuclear war
East Germans build Berlin Wall (August)
Kennedy delivers speech on national television warning that nuclear war could break out at any time
CNVA organizes San Francisco-to-Moscow Walk for Peace
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 3,200
1962
SDS publishes the Port Huron statement
Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts toward nuclear disarmament
Soviets shatter 3-year moratorium on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons with series of tests (Autumn)
Cuban Missile Crisis (October)
SANE places new advertisement calling for test ban; featured photograph of famous baby doctor Benjamin Spock and caption "Dr. Spock is worried"
1963
Soviet Union and United States sign partial test ban treaty (July)
First protest against American involvement in Vietnam is organized by Thomas Cornell, a Catholic Worker member in New York City
John F. Kennedy assassinated (Nov. 22)
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 16,300
1964
Catholic Peace Fellowship formed. Founders include Catholic activists Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Martin Corbin, Thomas Cornell and James Forest
Peace activists, including Joan Baez, David Dellinger and the Berrigans, hold a rally to protest the Vietnam war in Washington DC
The May 2 Movement formed among students at Yale University to protest American involvement in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed almost unanimously by Congress; opens way for massive U.S. intervention in Vietnam
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 23,000
1965
Phil Ochs releases "I Ain't Marching Anymore"
Viet Cong attack at Pleiku; LBJ orders heavy reprisal attack of North Vietnam (February)
LBJ orders sustained bombing of North Vietnam -- Rolling Thunder operation (March)
First "teach-in" on U.S. involvement in Vietnam held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (March)
SDS sponsors national antiwar demonstration in Washington DC; 20,000 attend (April)
First major confrontation at Ia Drang Valley; General Westmoreland requests vast increase in troop strength (October)
Augustus Stanley mass-produces "acid"
Norman Morrison immolates himself in front of Pentagon (November)
Roger LaPorte immolates himself in front of United Nations building (November)
SANE sponsors anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC (November)
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 184,300
1966
Senator J. William Fulbright holds televised hearings to call attention to Vietnam policy (February)
Start of massive B-52 attacks on North Vietnam (April)
Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam (CALCAV) founded; William Sloane Coffin executive secretary (April)
SANE organizes "National Voters Peace Pledge"; plan to end war through local politics
LBJ requests 10% tax surcharge to pay for war (June)
First national anti-Vietnam "Mobilization" committee formed; holds protests
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 385,300
1967
Martin Luther King, Jr. makes opposition to war in Vietnam public
A.J. Muste dies at age 82 (February)
Draft resisters "We Won’t Go" groups begin to form on campuses around country
Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam (Spring Mobe) forms; holds dual rallies in New York City and San Francisco (April)
Vietnam Veterans Against the War founded (June)
Spring Mobe becomes permanent organizing committee; holds massive rally in Washington DC; Yippies and others try to "levitate" Pentagon (Oct. 15)
National draft-card turn-ins (October, December)
Antiwar critic Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn) announces bid for Democratic nomination for president (November)
Another Mother for Peace organization founded
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 485,600
1968
Justice department indicts five prominent advocates, including Dr. Benjamin Spock and William Sloane Coffin, of draft resistance on conspiracy charges (January)
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese launch Tet Offensive (January)
General Westmoreland requests 200,000 more troops
Robert F. Kennedy enters race for Democratic nomination (March)
LBJ announces bombing cessation; calls for negotiations; announces that he will not run again for president (March)
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, TN (April)
Catonsville Nine raid draft board in Maryland (May)
Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles (June)
Televised clashes between antiwar protestors and Chicago police outside the Democratic Convention (August)
Richard M. Nixon elected president on platform to "win the peace" in Vietnam (November)
1969
Nixon orders secret bombing raids of Cambodia (March)
Chicago Seven, including Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and David Dellinger, tried on conspiracy to riot for roles in Chicago; turn trial into circus
National antiwar conference in Cleveland, New Mobe founded (July)
Woodstock festival (August)
Weatherman’s Days of Rage in Chicago (October)
Vietnam Moratorium protests across the country (October); Moratorium leadership made up of SANE members and "Get Clean for Gene" students
My Lai massacre reported in press for first time (November)
New Mobe demonstrations in Washington DC and San Francisco (November)
U.S. troop level in Vietnam: 541,000 (highest of war)
1970
Nixon orders U.S. troops into Cambodia; in response, hundreds of colleges and universities closed by demonstrators (April)
National Guardsmen fires upon demonstrators at Kent State University; 4 students killed, 9 wounded (May)
Congress repeals Gulf of Tonkin Resolution but continues to fund war appropriations
George McGovern-Mark Hatfield measure calling for withdrawal of all American troops by end of 1971 narrowly defeated in Senate
Vietnam Veterans Against the War hold mock "search-and-destroy" demonstrations (September)
Nixon announces withdrawal of 40,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam (December)
1971
Invasion of Laos begins (February)
"Set the Date Now" campaign launched by peace advocates (February)
Nixon announces withdrawal of another 100,000 troops (April)
New York Times begins publishing Pentagon Papers (June)
1972
Nixon announces mining of North Vietnam’s ports and intensified bombing (May)
Nixon crushes Democratic candidate George McGovern (60.7% to 37.5%, every state except Massachusetts) to win reelection
Nixon and Soviet president Leonid Breznev sign a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I); severe limits of antiballistic missiles and freeze on deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles
Christmas Bombings: Heaviest bombings of war; round-the-clock B-52 raids on Hanoi-Haipong (December)
1973
Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho sign Paris Peace Accords (January)
Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam (March)
How many total were deployed in Vietnam over the span of the entire Vietnam war?
My note; in this Iraq war it is not fresh, new recruits, but the revolving door with the same troops deploying over and over again to Iraq; 2 times, 3 times or more. And when they are not deploying to Iraq they may be deploying to Afghanistan.
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