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Korean War began when Communists North Korea, with Soviet and Chinese support, invaded South Korea.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent military advisers to train and arm the South Vietnamese Army in its fight against the Communists
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President John F. Kennedy took office
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By the time Kennedy was assassinated, the number of American military advisers in Vietnam had risen from 700 to 16,000.
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Two North Vietnamese gun boats were said to have attacked an American destroyer.
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Johnson.s National Scurity Adviser, put it "I see the light at the end of the tunnel
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North Vietnam launched the Tet Offemsive, the offensive was a terrible defeat of the Communists- shook America's confidence.
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paris Peace Accords called for an end to the fighting and for all foreign troops to be withdrawn from Vietnam.
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End finally came
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60 percent of the population was born after the Communist victory
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Comander Hung Ba Le was returning for the first time to the country he had fled with his parents and three siblings on a fishing boat as 5-year-old.
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The last helicopter took off carrying evacuees to nearby U.S. warships, about 400 people desperate to escape
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Party leaders followed China's lead and instituted free-market reforms with less state control of the economy and more private enterprise
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President Bill Clinton lifted the US trade embargo
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Restored diplomatic realtions