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United States $15 Million worth of military aid to France to help them fight in Vietnam.
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The Geneva Accords creates a cease-fire for the peaceful withdrawal of the French from Vietnam and provides a temporary boundary between North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
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Perry leaves to go to Vietnam on a flight from Massachusetts.
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The guys share stories about where theyre from and about their lives back home.
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Jenkins Steps on a mine and is killed.
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Lobel tell Perry that to him everything is like a movie, or in a movie setting.
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Perry and Squad shoot at their own first platoon.
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Lieutenant Carrol dies.
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Perry and Squad begin to fight and are almost ovverun by the vietnamese.
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U.S. Troops in Vietnam reaches 540,000.
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The American public learns of the Mai Lai massacre.
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President Nixon announces that U.S. troops will attack enemy locations in Cambodia. This news sparks nationwide protests, especially on college campuses.
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Portions of the Pentagon Papers are published in The New York Times.
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed that provide a cease-fire
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The last U.S. troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
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Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington DC is dedicated.