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Fought between the Viet Minh and the United States
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The Ho Chi Minh trail was a path that led from the Democratic Republican of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam.
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The destroyer USS Maddox engaged three North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boats, resulting in damage to the three boats.
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
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President Johnson commits over 60,000 troops to Vietnam
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One of the largest air-mobile assualts ever,
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18 marines instantly killed, 40 injured.
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The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow.
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Charlie's company kills 200 civilians
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Richard Nixon takes office
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US forces will drop more than half a million tons of bombs on Cambodia
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In Paris, peace talks break down.