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A remote mountain top in the north west corner of Vietnam, the Vietnamese defeat the French
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Construction begins on a network of roads for the Vietcong and the NVA to use against the Americans and the French, near Laos and Cambodia
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President and increases US involvement by sending in soldiers
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US begins spraying vegitaion in Vietnam with Agent Orange to kill off life, making it harder to get ambushed in the thick jungle
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DRV lanuches attack on two American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, the second attack never happened
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Congress grants President Johnson with broad war powers
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Bombing missions that lasted four years over North Vietnam
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The US offers peace for economic aid proposal to North Vietanam, but gets rejected
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LBJ commits 60,000 troops to Vietnam, the Austrailians and the Koreans also join
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The First major battle for American units at Chu Lai base, this is also a victory
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247 helicopters fly over Tay Ninh Province, the largest air assault in history
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18 marines are killed and 40 wounded
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DRV launches attacks against major southern cities, designed to get LBJ to the bargaining table
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US kills 200 civilians and one member of the units is tried and found guilty. Armys begins to question their orders.
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Nixon takes office with aims to negotiate troops being sent home
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Bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases
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two thirds of the US army stationed in Vietnam have been sent home in two years
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Peace talks between the US and North Vietman break down in Paris
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Peace between the US and North Vietnam resume in Paris
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all warring parties sign
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Nixon resigns leaving South Vietnam without its strongest advocate
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at 4:03 am, two US marines are killed at Saigon's Tan Son Nuht airport, at dawn the last marines lift off