Template: Vietnam War graphical timeline

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| name = Vietnam War graphical timeline
| state = {{{expand|autocollapse}}}
| title = [[Vietnam War]] timeline
| innerstyle = table-layout:fixed
| list1 = <div style="font-size:112%; overflow:auto">
{{Simple Horizontal timeline
|width=100%; min-width:110em;
|border=none

|row1=note
|row1-1-text=<span style=" width:5em; display:block; line-height:1em !important;white-space:normal !important;">[[Battle of Saigon (1955)|Battle of Saigon]]</span>
|row1-1-at=1955.2 <!--date event happened-->
|row1-1-lift=-3.5em
|row1-1-shift=-2em
|row1-2-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|ARVN formed]]</span>
|row1-2-at=1955.7
|row1-2-lift=-4.5em
|row1-2-shift=-0.5em
|row1-3-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Ba Cụt|Hòa Hảo<br>defeated]]</span>
|row1-3-at=1956.4
|row1-3-lift=-3.5em
|row1-3-shift=-0.2em
|row1-4-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Ho Chi Minh trail|HCM trail]] established</span>
|row1-4-at=1958
|row1-4-lift=-4.5em
|row1-4-shift= -3.5em
|row1-5-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[North Vietnamese invasion of Laos|Laos<br>Invasion]]</span>
|row1-5-at=1958.5
|row1-5-lift=-4em
|row1-5-shift= -0.5em
|row1-6-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Viet Cong|NLF]]<br/>formed</span>
|row1-6-at=1959.56
|row1-6-lift=-4.5em
|row1-6-shift=-1.8em
|row1-7-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt|1960<br/>Coup<br/>Attempt]]</span>
|row1-7-at=1960.48
|row1-7-lift=-4.25em
|row1-7-shift= -2.5em
|row1-8-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Role of the United States in the Vietnam War#Under the Kennedy Administration|US<br/>role<br/>expanded]]</span>
|row1-8-at=1961
|row1-8-lift=-4.5em
|row1-8-shift= -1.5em
|row1-9-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing|Palace Bombing]]</span>
|row1-9-at=1962.16
|row1-9-lift=-4.5em
|row1-9-shift=-3em
|row1-10-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Buddhist crisis|Buddhis<br>Crisis]]</span>
|row1-10-at=1963
|row1-10-lift=-3.5em
|row1-10-shift=-3em
|row1-11-text = <span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[1963 South Vietnamese coup|1963<br/>Coup]]</span>
|row1-11-at=1963.8
|row1-11-lift=-5em
|row1-11-shift=-2.5em
|row1-12-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Gulf of Tonkin incident|Gulf of<br>Tonkin<br/> Incident]]</span>
|row1-12-at=1964.3
|row1-12-lift=-4em
|row1-12-shift=-2.5em
|row1-13-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Operation Barrel Roll|Laos bombings]]<br/>begin</span>
|row1-13-at=1964.8
|row1-13-lift=-5em
|row1-13-shift=-1em
|row1-14-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969|US<br/>Forces]]<br/>deployed</span>
|row1-14-at=1965.2
|row1-14-lift=-4.25em
|row1-14-shift=1em
|row1-15-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Buddhist Uprising]]</span>
|row1-15-at=1966.3
|row1-15-lift=-4.5em
|row1-15-shift=-0.8em
|row1-16-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Sihanouk Trail]] created</span>
|row1-16-at=1966.6
|row1-16-lift=-2.5em
|row1-16-shift=1.5em
|row1-17-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Tet Offensive|Tet Offensive]]</span>
|row1-17-at=1968.1
|row1-17-lift=-4.5em
|row1-17-shift=-3.5em
|row1-18-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Vietnamization|US begins<br>withdrawal]]</span>
|row1-18-at=1969
|row1-18-lift=-3em
|row1-18-shift=-3.5em
|row1-19-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam|PRG]] formed</span>
|row1-19-at=1969.5
|row1-19-lift=-4.5em
|row1-19-shift=-3em
|row1-20-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Cambodian campaign|Cambodian<br>Campaign]]</span>
|row1-20-at=1970.3
|row1-20-lift=-3em
|row1-20-shift=-4em
|row1-211-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:8em; display:block">[[Cambodian Civil War|Cambodian<br/>War<br/>widens]]</span>
|row1-211-at=1970.8
|row1-211-lift=-5em
|row1-211-shift= -1.2em
|row1-21-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:8em; display:block">[[Operation Lam Son 719|Lam<br/>Son<br/>719]]</span>
|row1-21-at=1971.4
|row1-21-lift=-3.5em
|row1-21-shift=0.8em
|row1-22-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Easter Offensive]]</span>
|row1-22-at=1972.2
|row1-22-lift=-5em
|row1-22-shift=-0.8em
|row1-221-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:5em; display:block;">[[Operation Linebacker II|Christmas Bombings]]</span>
|row1-221-at=1972.9
|row1-221-lift=-3em
|row1-221-shift=-0.2em
|row1-23-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:10em; display:block">[[Paris Peace Accords|Paris Accords]]</span>
|row1-23-at=1973.1
|row1-23-lift=-4.5em
|row1-23-shift=1em
|row1-24-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:10em; display:block">[[1975 spring offensive|Spring<br/>Offensive]]</span>
|row1-24-at=1974.8
|row1-24-lift=-3em
|row1-24-shift=-2.5em
|row1-25-text=<span style="line-height:1em; width:2em; display:block;">[[Fall of Saigon|Fall<br>of<br>Saigon]]</span>
|row1-25-at=1975.4
|row1-25-lift=-4.5em
|row1-25-shift=-1.2em

|row2=timeline
|row2-colour= #9FCCFC
|row2-bordertop= 1px solid #000;
|row2-height=1.6em
|row2-1-text= [[United States|U.S]] President: [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
|row2-1-to=1961
|row2-2-text = [[John F. Kennedy]]
|row2-2-to=1963.92
|row2-3-text=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
|row2-3-to=1969
|row2-4-text = [[Richard Nixon]]
|row2-4-to=1974
|row2-5-text=[[Gerald Ford|G. Ford]]
|row2-5-to=1975.5

|row3=timeline
|row3-height=1.6em
|row3-bordertop= 1px solid #000;
|row3-colour=#FFF28E
|row3-1-text= [[South Vietnam|RVN]] Presidents: [[Ngô Đình Diệm]]
|row3-1-to=1963.88
|row3-2-text=[[January 1964 South Vietnamese coup|Instability]]
|row3-2-colour=white
|row3-2-to=1965.48
|row3-3-text=[[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]]
|row3-3-to=1975
|row3-4-text=[[Trần Văn Hương]]
|row3-4-to=1975.6

|row4=timeline
|row4-colour=#ED8B8B
|row4-bordertop= 1px solid #000;
|row4-height=1.6em
|row4-1-text=[[North Vietnam|DRV]] General Secretary: [[Lê Duẩn]] / President: [[Ho Chi Minh]] 
|row4-1-to=1969.72
|row4-2-text=General Secretary: [[Lê Duẩn]] / President: [[Tôn Đức Thắng]]

|row5=timeline
|row5-colour=#A3E3ED
|row5-bordertop= 1px solid #000;
|row5-height=1.6em
|row5-1-text=[[Viet Cong|NLF]] Chairman: [[Nguyễn Hữu Thọ]]
|row5-1-to=1969.1
|row5-2-text=[[Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam|PRG]] President: [[Nguyễn Hữu Thọ]]

|row6=scale
|from=1955 <!--start of war-->
|to=1975.5
|inc = 1
|axis-nudge=-0.8em
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}}<noinclude>[[Category:Vietnam War templates]]</noinclude>