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Geneva Accords
Conference in Geneva, it was decided that Geneva would temporarily be dividedat the 17th parallel. They where promised to have elections two years later to unite the country once again, but that never happened. -
SDS Founded
SDS was formed to bring together protesters that where studnets together. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This aloud President Johnson to do any action that he believed was nesscary to help with international peace in Asia -
Tet Offensive
Vietcong troops emerged from their tunnels and attacked every major metropoltan center in south Vietnam. -
My lai Massacre
American soldiers opened fire on several hundred innocent woman and children in a village. This event later shocked Americans and started anti-war protests. -
Invasion of Cambodia
It was a bunch of military opperations that where conducted in Eastern Cambodia. This done from President Nixon -
Kent State incident
President Nixon announeced that he needed to draft 150,000 soldiers to war. This sparked major protests. At Kent State university, the students burned the ROTC building. -
The Pentagon Papers
The famous newspaper, The New York Times, printed a page called the Pentagon papers, which reveled the secret war that the United states had been fighting with Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
Vietnam people captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
