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Domino Coin
Harry S. Truman proposed this to justify sending troops to Greece and turkey. This was a thing because they assumed that Vietnam was going to go, communist, because of Russia. -
Geneva Accords
This conference was able to convince the French to take their troops out of north Vietnam. -
Assassination of Diem
This was the final prime minister of Vietnam and then was the president of south Vietnam in 1955 until he was captured in 1963 and killed. -
Gulf Of Tonkin Revolution
Gave the President the right to intervene when he thought was right. -
LBJ first troops to Vietnam
LBJ sent 3,500 soldiers to south Vietnam to defeat the north. -
Tet Offensive
Historians estimate as many as 50,000 communist troops died in the effort to gain control of the southern part of Vietnam -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam -
Nixon's Vietnamization policy
administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces -
Nixon sends troops to Cambodia
Nixon sent troops to Cambodia in hopes of cutting off supplies and ties to the U.S enemies which officially started the invasion -
Kenn State Shooting
The National Guard was there from a strike in Kenn state and a protester threw a rock at a guard they shot and killed 4 students and wounded 9 other unarmed victims. -
Hard Hat Riot
400 construction workers and 800 office workers attacked 1,000 demonstraters affiliated with the Kenn state shooting. -
Nixon's Christmas bombing
The bombing in Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Paris Peace Accords
This ceased fire throughout Vietnam. Also, the U.S. agreed to pull all their troops out and dismantle their bases and North Vietnam agreed to release all prisoners. -
War Powers Act
check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress -
Saigon Falls
This was the ending of Saigon as the south Vietnamese government fell and U.S. troops had to retreat.