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Dien Bien Phu was a French commander that ordered his troops to stop fighting. There was a battle that had lasted 55 days with 3,000 French troops were killed, 8,000 wounded.
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A supply route created for North Vietnam to Vietcong forces in South Vietnam. It was created along the Vietnamese/Cambodian border iwth parts going into Vietnam.
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The U.S. president John F. Kennedy decides to help the South vietnamese in the war against the Vietcong guerrillas. He sends in equipment and supplies including 3,000 military advisors and support personnel.
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To clear vegetation alongside highways, making it hard for the Vietcong to hide themselves for ambushes.
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Because the American and South Vietamese were along North Vietnams coast, North Vietnam attacked against an American ship on call in the Gulf of Tonkin
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Gives President Johnson the power to endure whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia.
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Gives President Johnson the power to endure whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia. It lasted 1965 to 1968, so basically three years.
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The U.S. offers North Vietnam economic aid in exchange for peace, but the offer is rejected.
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The president at the time decided to increase American combat support and strength in the war.
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An attack against the U.S. Marine base at Chu Lai was coming, The first major battle of the Vietnam War, the United States is victorious.
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One of the largest air-mobile assaults ever, involving 240 helicopters sweeping over Tay Ninh province to begin Operation Junction City. The goal of Junction City is to destroy Vietcong bases and the Vietcong military headquarters for South Vietnam. After 72 days it finally ends, with Americans being successful.
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Khe Sanh was an American Military base in Vietnam that American military officials tried to keep back from the attack of the Vietcong.
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The Tet Offensive begins and was created as a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and other North Vietnam forces on multiple cities and towns throughout South Vietnam.
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In the area of My Lai, the U.S. forces kills about two hundred civilians and therefore inocent people. Although only one member of the division is tried and found guilty of war crimes, the aftermath of the massacre is sensed throughout the entire army.
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Richard Nixon takes office as the new President of the United States and decides that he wants to bring home the troops in Vietnam yet make sure South Vietnam will be okay with out their support.
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President Nixon allows Operation Menu which is the bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases within the country of Cambodia. The bombing over Cambodia lasts for four years and the army dropped over a half million tons of bombs.
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There were only 133,000 U.S. men remaining in South Vietnam. The ground war is now more of South Vietnam's responsibility.
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Peace talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans begin in Paris.
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The United States begins to continue the peace talks that are taking place in Paris.
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All the countries involved in fighting the war in Vietnam signs a cease fire, a clear step towards the end of the war.
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President Nixon decides to resign, which then means that Vietnam has now lost their strongest supporter.
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Two American soldiers are killed at an airport and serve as the last casualties of the war. Then the last U.S. helicopter lifts off and leaves Vietnam and North Vietnamese tanks role into Saignon ending the war.