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The USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boat.
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It authorized the president to take all necessary measures, including the use of armed force against any aggressor in the conflict.
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American bombing campaign during Vietnam war, the targets were in Northern Vietnam.
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A 31-year-old pacifist Quaker from Baltimore, sets himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war. Onlookers encourage him to release his 11-month-old baby daughter, whom he is holding, before he is engulfed in flames.
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U.S. and South Vietnamese forces resist an offensive by communist forces in the Central Highlands. The United States forces suffer some 1,800 casualties.
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A U.S. marine garrison at Khe Sanh in south vietnam is bombarded with massive artillery by communist forces of north vietnam
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Ho CHi Minh dies from a heart attack
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U.S. and South Vietnamese forces attack communist bases across the Cambodian border in the Cambodian Incursion
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in a bloody incident known as the Kent State Shooting, National Guardsmen fire on anti-war demonstrators at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine.
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North and South Vietnam are formally unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under hard line communist rule........
