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Eisenhower Explains "Domino Theory"
The Fall of French Indochina create domino effect in South East Asia.
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Dien Bien Phu Overrun By Vietminh
Viet Minh troops surrounded 15,000 French soldiers. Viet Minh guerrillas have been fighting a long and bloody war for control of Vietnam.
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Geneva Accords Signed
North and South Vietnam 17th parallel as a dividing line. Elections must be held within 2 years.
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Ngo Dinh Diem Refuses To Take Part In Elections
Refuse to hold elections to reunify Vietnamese countries. Separation between both North and South Vietnam became permanent.
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NFL
National Liberation Front formed with North Vietnam as political wing of antigovernment in South Vietnam.
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Operation Ranch Hand
U.S. Aircraft starts spraying Agent Orange and herbicides all across South Vietnam.
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Buddhist Crisis
Government of Ngo Dinh Diem shoots 8 people and children in Central Vietnam Hue city.
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President Kennedy Assassinated
In Dallas, Texas he was assassinated. Then Lyndon B. Johnson is President.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Attack on the Gulf made Congress pass the Tonkin Resolution to use any and all necessary measures against enemies.
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Opperation Rolling Thunder Begins
President launches 3 year campaign to sustain bomb targets in North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Military supply route in North Vietnam to South Vietnam.
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Tet Offensive
Combined assault of both Viet Minh and North Vietnam military. U.S. Embassy is invaded and U.S. gradually withdrawal.
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Kent State Shooting
Students protests of bombing in Cambodia by U.S. military forces. Ohio National Guardsman killed 4 students on campus. Focal point of nation deeply divided by the war.
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Invasion of Cambodia
Provide 8-6 months to train South Vietnamese that would then shorten the war. Nixon promised a withdraw of 150,000 American soldiers by spring.
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Fall of Saigon
South Vietnam government surrenders after the Capital was seized. Marine and Air Force helicopters transport all together more than 8,000 Americans and South Vietnamese in evacuation.
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