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Aid to Diem from US
Aid to Diem is increased heavily by the US and advisors are sent to help train south troops -
Vietcong is established
The Vietcong is established in Loc ninh, the insurgency would grown rapidly in the final months of 1964. Estimates of its numbers at this point ranged from 80,000 to 100,000. The South Vietnamese military, while expanding and improving due to American aid, was unable to respond to Viet Cong attacks. -
More US advisors sent
The number of US military advisors jumps to over 12000 and the north gets paranoid -
Diem and his brother assasinated
Diem and his brother are assassinated during a coup by generals of the south vietnamese army -
Gulf of Tonkin incedent
US ship is attacked by 3 torpedo boats and days later another attack was sent but was later to be revealed it was eager sailors and human error -
US enters conflict officially with NVA
US commences rolling thunder and sends 200000 troops -
Operation rolling thunder
Operation rolling thunder is commenced dropping bombs on North Vietnamese locations like bridges and structures -
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First large battle
In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.