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the hawks
the hawks recalled the Munich pact of 1938, which was intended to appease that led to world war 2 -
Geneva Accords
the French and viet nih signed the geneva accords -
President of south vietnam
he declared himself president of south vietnam -
the military
the number of military advisers had soared to around 9,000. -
assault by the U.S.
The first major assault by U.S. ground troops called Operation Starlite took place in aigust 1965 against 1500 viet cong who were prepering to attack a U.S. air base near the coast -
an american war
starting in 1965 with the landing of the first combat forces , the conflict in vietnam changed -
ATTACK
after the viet cong attacked a U.S. air base in the south. LBJ responed by ordering the bombing of barracks and military staging areas north of the 17th parallel. -
marines
on march 8, 1965 about 3,500 u.s. marines waded ashore at a beach near Da Nang South Vietnam -
americans
by late 1967 nearly half a million americans ere serving in vietnam and more were streaming into the country