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HUAC forced hundreds of people who worked in the movie industry to renounce left-wing political beliefs and testify against one another. -
John F. Kennedy sent helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorized secret operations against Viet Vong -
U.S. aircraft start spraying Agent Orange and other herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam to kill vegetation that would offer cover and food -
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas -
USS Maddox is attacked by North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Golf of Tulkin. -
President Johnson halts bombing in Vietnam north of the 20th parallel. Facing backlash about the war, he also announces he will not run for reelection. -
Series of secret bombings known as “Operation Menu”, B-52 bombers target suspected communist base camps and supply zones in Cambodia -
ARVN troops, with U.S. support, invaded Laos in an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail -
58,220 Americans lose their lives. 1.1 Million Vietnamise and Viet Cong fighters were also killed. -
The Gulf state's refusal to cancel Iraq’s war debts contributed to Saddam Hussein’s decision to make threats against Iraq’s rich, but militarily weak.