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Ho Chi Minh is born
He was the former prime minister of Vietnam -
Vietnam declares independence from France, but neither France nor the U.S. recognize Vietnam as a separate nation
Minh launched an attack on the French in Hanoi. -
The Geneva Accords cause Vietnam to be split into North and South
The 17th parallel was where the nation was divided. -
Vietnam election is canceled
He decided to cancel the election because he wanted to try and reunite them all under communism -
President Eisenhower declares Domino Theory
The idea was to prevent communism from spreading. -
Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu
Ho Chi Minh said that the North Vietnamese would never negotiate under the threat of bombing. -
The National Liberation Front is formed
Replicated Minh's successes from French rule. -
set to fire
the Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs. -
assassination of JFK
president John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding through town -
U.S. ship was shot
president Johnson claims that north Vietnamese had shot upon one of the ships and because of this the U.S. got completely involved into the war -
The first combat troops arrive in Vietnam
In September of 1950, was when the U.S. sent military advisers. -
The U.S. withdraws support of Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South Vietnam
Diem got captured and was later assassinated.
