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First shipload of U.S. arms aid to pro-French Vietnam arrives
First shipload of U.S. arms aid to pro-French Vietnam arrives -
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Major events of vietnam war 1950-1974
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Viet Minh overrun French fortress at Dien Bien Phu
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President Eisenhower's administration sends the first U.S. advisers to South Vietnam to train the South Vietnamese Army
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Two Americans are killed and one wounded during a Viet Minh attack 20 miles north of Saigon
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Death of JFK
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Gulf of tonkin incident
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Gulf of tonkin resolution. All military powers to president.
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200,000 troops sent to vietnam
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1965 - The US Congress provided $2.4 Billion for the Vietnam war effort, with little dissent in the US House or Senate
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Battle of la drang valley
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Communists start Tet Offensive which escalates into one of the major battles of the war
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My Lai Massacre
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Expanded peace talks open in Paris with representatives of the US, S. Vietnam, N. Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front (NLF)
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Ho Chi Minh dies
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The first draft lottery in 27 years was held at Selective Service Headquarters in Washington, DC
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President Nixon sent US forces into Cambodia
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4 Kent State college students were shot to death by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest on the campus.
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LT Calley convicted for the My Lai Massacre
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End of vietnam war.
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President nixon resigns. Gerald ford sworn in.
