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The French took over Vietnam with other countries, they created the Frech Indochina.
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Nationalists in Vietnam felt like they needed self-goverance and less influence of the French.
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Vietnam was divided into a communist North and a non-communist (democratic) South.
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President John F. Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam to help resolve the conflict.
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This resolution created by the Senate allowed President Johnson to have more US involvement in Vietnam.
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Many people felt the war was 'not their fight' and protested about it. This manily happened on college campuses.
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Bombing campains in North Vietnam were part of this opertaion.
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3,500 US Marines were the first American soldiers to land in South Vietnam
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The Viet-Minh and the Vietcong began to bomb cities in South Vietnam, including thirty US military locations .
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Thiusands of Vietnamese civilians were killed by the Viet-Minh and the Vietcong, which angered many US soldiers
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This peace treaty endeed all of the US's involvement in Vietnam and later allowed for thousands of soldiers to return home
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North Vietnamese soldiers captured the South Vietnam caqpital city after the last US soldiers left.
