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The Geneva Conference
divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel, with elections
for reunification slated to take place two years -
U.S policies to Vietnam ulti end of 1963
By 1963 Kennedy sent 16,000 military advisers to Vietnam.
However, he refused the commitment to the ground force.
Which could be predicted if he could have lived in 1964-65, might have ordered a negotiated disengagement -
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
The assassination of Kennedy lead to several consequences for the cold war: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency.
Escalation in Vietnam. also impacted Détente, that the plans of improving the US-Soviet relationship were interrupted -
1964 presidential election
After Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson won the election. He continued Kennedy's policies but brought his own approach to the cold war. He would not be the president who lost Vietnam to communism, this resulted in he took the nation to a full-scale war in 1964-1965. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
the U.S. Congress passed a resolution that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to increase U.S. military presence in Vietnam, without a formal declaration of war. Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units for the first time and dramatically increased the number of American troops to 184,000. -
By 1968
By the end of 1968, the U.S has sent over half a million ground troops to Vietnam