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| 1954 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Robert Capa is killed by a land mine in Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with the surrender to the Vietminh of 12,000 French troops | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The French abandon Vietnam, leaving the country divided at the seventeenth parallel | |
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| 1954 |
| | | In an armistice ending the Indochina War, France acknowledges the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American is set in contemporary Vietnam and foresees troubles ahead | |
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| 1955 |
| | | With US backing, South Vietnam declares itself an independent republic | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Vietcong, or NLF, is formed as a guerrilla force to liberate South Vietnam from the US-backed government | |
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| 1964 |
| | | A reported incident in the Gulf of Tonkin triggers US intervention against North Vietnam, in a significant step towards the Vietnam War | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US President Lyndon Johnson launches a regular bombing campaign against North Vietnam | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The Vietnam War enters a new dimension with the deployment of US ground troops in the country | |
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