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when the french faught the viet minh
when hochi minh's took the capital of hanoi and declared vietnam to be an independent country -
when Geneva declared a cease fire on vietnam
the geneva declared a cease-fire then divided Vietnam officially into North Vietnam under Ho and his Communist forces and South Vietnam under a French-backed emperor. -
when diem took control of vietnam
With U.S. assistance the Diem took control of the South Vietnamese government in 1955 then they declared the Republic of Vietnam then they promptly canceled the elections that had been scheduled for 1956. -
free elections
both together by free elctions -
helping train the vienamese army
In 1962, U.S. president John F. Kennedy then sent American “military advisors” to Vietnam to help train the South Vietnamese army, the ARVN, then they quickly realized that the Diem regime was unsalvageable. -
when south vietmnese fell to north Vietnamese
On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese peolpe and the capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, who reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam then they ending the Vietnam War. -
us troops killed hundreds of unarmed civilians
Morale among U.S. troops also hit an all-time low and the manifesting itself tragically in the 1968 My Lai Massacre in which frustrated U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in a small village. -
the viet cong launching a missle
In 1968, the North Vietnamese Army and when the Viet Cong launched a massive campaign called the Tet Offensive attacking almost thirty U.S. targets and dozens of other cities in South Vietnam at once. -
the cease fire
This cease-fire was finally signed in January 1973, and it had the last U.S. military personnel left Vietnam in March 1973. -
the secret pentagon papers
The revelation of these illegal actions,that are along with the publication of the secret Pentagon Papers in U.S. newspapers in 1971,and it also caused an enormous scandal in the United States and forced Nixon to push for a peace settlement. -
secret negotiations between the us
After secret negotiations between U.S. emissary Henry
Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative in is also Le Duc Tho in 1972, Nixon engaged in diplomatic maneuvering with China and the USSR and stepped up bombing of North Vietnam to pressure the North Vietnamese into a settlement. -
the national convention
the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and the deaths of four students at Kent State University in 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen they fired on a crowd.
