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1949
In 1949, Mao Zedong and his fellow communists took power in China. -
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The Fall of Saigon
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U.S. involvement
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent military advisers to train and arm the South Vietnamese Army in its figtha against the Communists. -
President John F. Kennedy
When President John F. Kennedy took office, He too saw Vietnam as a place to prove Americas anti-Communists resolve. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and The number of military advisers in Vietnam rose from 700 to 16,000. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Lyndon B. Johnson asked congress to pass the Gukf of Tonkin Resolution. -
Protests
The first mass demonstration began with 20,000 people in washington, and trhe protests grew in size and militancy. -
Military intervention
Full scale-military intervention bean witht the arrival of Da Nang of the first U.S. combat troops. -
North Vietnam and the Vietcong launched the Tet offensive.
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President Nixon decides to extricate the U.S. from Vietnam.
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Kissinger and President Nixon began the process of "Vietnamization."
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The Prais Peace accords of January 1973 called for an end to the fighting to end and for all foreign troops to be withdrawn from Vietnam.
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The End: Communits forces overrna the South, with Saigon falling in April, forcing the hurried evacuastion of the remaiing Americans and the Fraction of vietnamese who wanted to get out.
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Party leqaders followed China's lead and instituted free-market reforms.
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President Bill Clinton lifted the U.S. trade embargo.
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President Bill Clinton restored diplomatic relations.