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World War 2
Vietnam was part of French indochine. Japanese troops occupied part of french indochina. -
Munich Pact
Was to appease Hitler but let to WW11 -
foreign rule
Vietnam resisted foreign rule. Ho Chi Mihn stirred up nationalist feelings by drawing on that history. -
independece
Japan surrendered to the allies, Vietnam declared its independence -
Warships
French warships opened fire on the port city -
Attacks
Attacks were launched on Viet Mihn by the french. Then the French warships opened fire on port city of Haiphong. Many vietnamese died from the open fire. -
Containing communist
Truman was more worried about containing communist more then the nationalist movement. Many U.S soldiers died from trying to stop commism from spreading everywhere. -
War began
Viet Minh launched a suprise attack on a french military base -
Geneva Accords
French and Viet Minh signed this. -
Countries Split
North Korea became communist as south Korea became democratic this caused them to split up. -
communism
Eisenhower warned that if vietnam fell to communism, the rest of the southwest would to. -
Battle of Dien Phu ended
Viet Mihn overan the french war which ened the battle -
Forming a group
viet Mihn formed a group called the National Liberation front. -
Kennedy
During the rebellion Viet Cong threatened the South Vietnamese army. Many officers were selling weapons to the Viet Cong. When Kennedy became president this all stopped. -
Buddist Rally
Buddhist opposed Diems policies, 9 demostrators were killed. -
Campaign
Barry though that the U.S should be apart of the war. -
Bombing
Barry told the military to start planning for the bombing of North Korea. -
Soldiers
There were 184,000 but that doubled later on. -
Air base
Viet Cong attacked a U.S air base in the South -
U.S Marines
They came to a beach in South Vietnam
