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french took control of vietnam
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nationlist movements emerged in vietnam
They were demanding more self-governance and less French influence -
the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrived in Vietnam
They landed at Cam Ranh Bay -
The Geneva Accords of 1954 declared a cease-fire
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Indochina War
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The Geneva Accords said that the divide was temporary
In 1955 the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became president of a new South Vietnamese republic. -
U.S. Marines beacame the first American combat troops
by 1968 500,000 American troops were stationed there -
four F-4C Phantoms escorting
a bombing raid at Kang Chi became the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war -
Operation Starlite began
as the first major American ground battle of the war when 5,500 US Marines destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province -
The Tet Offensive
the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong launched a massive campaign called the Tet Offensive attacking nearly thirty U.S. targets -
officer exeuted in Viet Cong
a suspected Viet Cong officer was summarily executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief -
capitial od Saigon to the north
the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, who reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War
