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Viets won with a lot of causualties against the french during this battle
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Group 559 makes a trail along cambodiam border.
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They got involved in Vietnam because they wanted to stop the spread of communism
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Made it more difficult for the Vietcong to excute ambushes. they killed all the vegitation so nobody could hide.
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The first major battle of vietnam
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US destroyer USS Maddox while performing a DeSoto mission, was engaged by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron
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joint resolution of the United States Congress passed in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135[1] and the destroyer USS Maddox on 02 August 1964
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U.S. Navy and Republic of Vietnam Air Force aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It lasted until November 1 1968.
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the north Vietnamese reject the offer fron President Johnson.
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82 day military operation. Largest airborne operation in vietnam.
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The Vietcong attack at 5:30 a.m. with mortars and rockets at the Marine base at Khe Sanh. 18 Marines are killed , 40 more wounded. This continues for two days.
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DRV and NLF launched attacks on major southern cities to get the Johnson administration to the bargaining table.
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Mass murder conducted by a unit of the US army on 347 to 504 unarmed citizens.
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Nixon brings half a million troops home. Johnson wouldnt have ever done that. A new president brings alot of change.
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The US bombs the North Vietnamese an Vietcong bases in Cambodia with more than a half million tons of bombs.
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There is talk of peace between the US and the nrth Vietnamese. If there is no agreement the war will continue.
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On this date, secret peace talks resume near Paris between the United States and the North Vietnamese
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The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.
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Gerald R. Ford will take the position as the new President to complete the remaining 2 1/2 years of Nixon's term.
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US is done with Vietnam but the South vietnamese are left to fight the North.