The Ho Chi Minh trail
1959–1975 · Event
Through the mountains and jungles of Laos and Cambodia, North Vietnam builds and endlessly rebuilds the supply artery that decides the war — thousands of miles of paths, roads and pipeline moving men and materiel south under the heaviest bombing in history. America drops more tonnage on the trail than fell on Germany in the Second World War; the trucks keep rolling.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Master
More from The Vietnam War
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- North Vietnam's final offensive (1975)
- US ground war begins at Da Nang (1965)
- Cronkite calls the war a stalemate (1968)
- Operation Ranch Hand sprays Agent Orange (1962)
- Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
Around 1959
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)