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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
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President and increases US involvement
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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
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LBJ gets okay from congress for broad war powers
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Bombing missions that lasted four years over Vietnam
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The US offers peace for economic aid proposal to North Vietanam but the vietnam reject it
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LBJ commits 60,000 troops to Vietnam along with Austrailian and korean forces
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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 by Vietcong
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DRV launches attacks against major southern cities to make Lbj mad and on the bargaining table
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Nixon takes office
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Bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong
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wo thirds of the US army stationed in Vietnam have been sent home in two years with133,000 troops still in vietnam
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Peace talks between the US and North Vietman break down in Paris
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warring parties sign
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Gerald Rudolph Ford takes the presedentcie
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Nixon resigns leaving South Vietnam without its strongest advocate
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4:03 am, two US marines are killed at Saigon's Tan Son Nuht airport, at dawn the last marines lift off