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In northern city of Hanoi, Ho declared Vietnam an independent nation.
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French troops back in Vietnam by the end of 1945. Regaining control of cities and southern half of the country.
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France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, Laos, and Cambodia met in Geneva, Switzerland, with the Vietminh and with South Vietnam’s anticommunist nationalists to hammer out a peace agreement. Divide Vietnam on 17th parallel.
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Supplying arm to Vietcong by network of pathways along borders of Vietnam, Laos , and Cambodia
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john F Kennedy is elected president
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U.S supported military coup toppled diems regime. Against kennedys wishes, Diem was assassinated.
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A north Vietnamese patrol boat fired torpedo at an American destroyer. USS was patrolling gulf of Tonkin, fire missed but Maddox returned fire leaving the patrol boat in great damge.
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Lyndon B Johnson is elected president.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader assassinated.
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Robert Kennedy wins Crucial California primary , yet was assassinated right after midnight.
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Announced us troops had invade Cambodia to clear north Vietnamese and Vietcong supply centers.
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national guard open fire 9 wounded 4 killed in campus protest.
