Part 1. Using the chronology from the Karnow's book, identify the year of each event. Diem returns to Saigon on July 7th.
Diem crushes the Binh Xuyen sect in April. Diem begins crackdown on Vietminh suspects and other dissidents.
Diem rejects the Geneva Agreement and refuses to participate in a nation-wide election.
Diem defeats Bao Dai in a referendum and proclaims the Republic of Vietnam.
Communists form a coordinated command structure in Eastern Mekong Delta.
President Eisenhower reaffirms his support for Diem regime.
Communists assassinated more that 400 minor South Vietnamese officials.
North Vietnam imposes a universal military conscription.
Eisenhower warns Kennedy that Laos is the major crisis in Southeast Asia.
Kennedy defeats Nixon for the presidency.
Maxwell Taylor recommends that American combat troop intervention disguised as flood relief.
Viet Cong units defeat South Vietnamese at the Battle of Ap Bac.
American military assistance command formed in South Vietnam.
Kennedy criticizes Diem in a television interview.
15,000 Americans are in Vietnam.
United States begins to funnel aid directly to the Saigon Government and agrees to train the Vietnamese army.
Hanoi leaders form the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam. South Vietnam dubs Viet Cong, meaning Communist Vietnamese.
Vice President Johnson visits South Vietnam in May and proposes additional American ai regime.
Americans and Saigon governments promote the Strategic Hamlet Program.

Part II. What are the five most significance events from the above? Why? ​