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Ho-Chi-Minh makes declaration speech, and uses quotes from the US constitution.
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This agreement seperated Vietnam into a North and a South territory.
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President Eisenhower is re-elected after beating out Adlai Stevenson.
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Only the year is known. The trails were a group of roads and trails that also ran through Laos and Cambodia. They were created to provide military support.
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The National Liberation Front is organized. This political and militarial organization was also referred to as the Viet Cong. It fought the US.
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John F. Kennedy was ecpected president. He was the first Catholic president.
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Kennedy is assinated and pronounced dead 4 hours later. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president while on Air Force One.
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The USS Maddox engaged 3 North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. A sea battle resulted in 4 deaths, none of which were american.
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This Resolution gave congress approval for expansion of the Vietnam War by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected by a wide margin over Barry Goldwater.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected for a second term after he became president after JFK's assasination.
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This was a bombing camaign created by the US against the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.
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3,500 US Marines land in South Vietnam, These are the first troops to arrive in Vietnam.
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The Viet Cong launch a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command centers in South Vetnam.
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US army soldiers murdered 347-504 unarmed vietnamese men, women and children. Only one soldier was convicted.
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President Richard Nixon is elected president.
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President Nixon made a speech on Vietnamization. His goal was to train South Vietnamese troops. This would allow US soldiers to come home.
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500,000 demonstraters against the war silently walked through DC protesting the war.
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This invasion was made to defeat 40,000 Viet Cong and PAVN North Vietnamese troops. This goal was to be accomplished by a series of attacks, bombings and battles.
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Four students were killed and 9 were injured at a Kent State University anti-war protest. This was held to protest the invasion of Cambodia. The Ohio National Gaurd was called in to keep the peace.When the guard felt threatened they fired shots into the crowd and injured/killed 13 young men and women.
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The American troops are withdrawn. Nixon gives end of war speech. A ceasfire with North Vietnam is created, and they release all of their American hostages
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This created peace in Vietnam and ended the war.
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This act was vetoed by President Nixon. This act would of given him full military control. Thos cartoon demonstrates the three positions taken by the US public. Nixon was a dove.
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The Communist forces moved into Saigon. The North Vietnamese communist troops were declared victorious over the non communist South Vietnamese troops. South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam and became communist.
