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French-Vietminh War Starts
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Britian gives India its Independence
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French set up a new government in Vietnam.
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United State's is paying for 3/4 of France's war costs.
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French troops seize Dien Bien Phu
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The Geneva Accords are signed in Paris
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French fall to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu.
The French withdraw from Indochina. -
Ngo Dinh Diem doesn't want to participate in elections in Vietnam
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Number of Military Advisors in South Vietnam reaches about 15,000
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Diem bans traditional religious flags for Buddha's birthday.
Buddhists protested and Diem's police killed 9 people and hurt 14 others. One monk set himself on fire. -
Henry Cabot Lodge goes to Vietnam. His arrival soon leads to Diem's execution.
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North Vietnamese torpedo boats fire on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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The goverment passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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The Vietcong attack at Pleiku leaves 7 Americans dead and more than 100 wounded.
14 hours later, Americans attack North Vietnam. -
Johnson releases a bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder.
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Teach-ins begin on college campuses throughout the nation.
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MLK, jr speaks out on the high number of African Americans and poor people dying in Vietnam.
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The Vietcong and North Vietnamese launcha surprise attack.
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Johnson drops out of the presidential race.
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Reports leak that an American platoon killed more than 200 South Vietnamese civilians...My Lai.
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Nixon withdrawls 25,000 soldiers.
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Kissinger has secret negotiations with Le Du Tho, North Vietnam's negotiator.
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Kent State University--Ohio National Guard soldiers kill 4 students and wound 9 others.
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Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Kissinger and Le Duc Tho annouce that peace is coming.
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An agreement is signed to promote peace in Vietnam and end the war.
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The last Americans are evacuated from Vietnam.
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North Vietnam invades South Vietnam.
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North Vietnamese capture Saigon and "unite Vietnam under Communist rule."
