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• Vietnam Independence but Country Split at 17th Parallel
As part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country. -
• Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam
president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades, -
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Vietnam War
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• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate -
• My Lai Massacre
the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops District, South Vietnam, on March 1968. -
• Apollo 11
the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
• Manson Family Murders
La Bianca murders were perpetrated by members of the Manson Family in Los Angeles, California who murdered five people on August 1969 -
• Vietnamization
was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program -
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Richard Nixon
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• Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed -
• 26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
• War Powers Resolution
federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
