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President Sent 400 american troops to South Vietnam
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U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968.
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The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault. The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.
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Series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War
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Was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
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Was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to the Nation announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam and
Reporting His Decision Not To Seek Reelection -
Memphis ,TN.
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Los Angeles CA
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The purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office.
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Draft lottery (1969) Representative Alexander Pirnie drawing the first number. On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950.
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President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia.
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Involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard