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Japanese took control of Vietnam, the next year Ho Chi Minh returned home from the Vietminh.
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They were forced to surrender in May when the Vietnimh overran the French outpost at Dien Bien Phu
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In 1945 the Free Speech Movement gained prominence at the university of California Berkeley.
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On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh stood in the middle of a huge crowd in the north city of Hanoi and Declared Vietnam an independent nation.
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Luitenent Colonel A. Peter Dewy was on his way to the Saigon airport in Vietnam.
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SDS helped organize a march on Washington D.C., by some 200,000 protesters.
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November of 1966 the rally in Washington drew more than 30,000. Then in February of 1966 the Johnson administration charged deferments for college students requiring students to be good academic standing in order to be granted a deferment.
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The war and Johnson's presidency took a drastic change for the worse.
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16,000 U.S military personal were in South Vietnam.
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President Nixon announced the first U.S with drawls from Vietnam
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In November 1973, congress passed the war powers act, which stipulated that president must inform congress within 48 hours of sending forces into a hostile area without declaration of war.
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April 30,1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon and captured the city. Then soon after, south Vietnam surrendered to north Vietnam.
