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War broke out
A vietnamese man Ho Chi Minh started organzing arnies against their french rulers. On this day war began between the French and viet Minh. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The French suffer a decisive defeat. -
Geneva Accords
The Geneva Accords created a cease-fire for peaceful withdraw of the French. -
Help from U.S
President Harry S. Truman decided to help France because, at the time the U.S was in the Cold war with communist countries, and Ho Chi Minh being a communist, worried truman. -
Gulf of Tonkin
Turning point of the war. North Vietnamise attack two U>S destroyers sitting in international waters. -
Aerial Bombing
Sustained u.S aerial bombing campagn of North Vietnam begins. -
Mai Lai
U.S soldiers kill hundreds of vietnamese civilians in the Vietnamese town of Mai Lai. -
Paris Peace Accords
Are signed and provide a cease-fire with the U.S.