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the French were defeated by the Viet Minh rebels, which marked the end of French involvement in Vietnam.
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support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. It was a combination of truck routes and paths for foot and bicycle traffic.
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troops arrive in southern vietnam
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clear vegetation along highways
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an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin was hit by a torpedo by North Vietnamese forces
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president johnson had the power to defend south eastern asia
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a limiting long lastin bomb offensive (lasted 3 years)
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the U.S. offers Northern Vietnam economic aid in exchange for peace
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put 60,000 troops in vietnam
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troops attack Song Be, a South Vietnamese provincial capital
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communists creating TET offensive
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U.S. Charlie Company kills two hundred people
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destroy Vietcong bases and the Vietcong military headquarters for South Vietnam
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operated out of the DMZ that divides Northern and Southern Vietnam
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Nixon wins presidency and becomes the new president
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bombing of Northern Vietnamese and Vietcong bases and Cambodia.
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133,000 troops remain in southern vietnam
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resumed in paris for nothern vietnam and the US
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both southern and nothern Vietnam sign a cease fire
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peace talks break down between nothern vietnam and the US
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Nixon resigns
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In 15 years,a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a million Southern Vietnamese soldiers died. thousands of civilians are dead