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The battle culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva
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The trail was a logistical system that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam to provide support, in the form of manpower or material, to the Vietcong and NVA (1959-1975)
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Operation Ranch Hand was designed to clear out the vegetation alongside highways, making it harder for the Vietcong to conceal themselves for ambushes.
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President JFK orders more help to Souht Vietnam by the way of 3,000 military advisors and support personnel
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North Vietnamese torpedo patrol boats attacked the American destroyer, Maddox
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This resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam.
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It was designed to force North Vietnam to stop supporting Vietcong guerrillas in the South and lasted until November 1, 1968
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The offer is rejected and almost two weeks later President Johnson raises America's combat strength in Vietnam to more than 60,000 troops.
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It was an 82-day military operation designed by the US and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or S. Vietnam). It was a massive search and destroy operation based on hopes of clearing out the Vietcong and PAVN
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The military base was attacked by Vietcong guerillas over a peroid of 12 weeks
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The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian The Tet Offensive's purpose was to strike civilian and military command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population. These uprisings would then topple the Saigon government and end the war in a single blow.
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It was the mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army
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His aim is to negotiate a settlement that will allow the half President Nixon wanted to to negotiate a settlement that will
President Nixon aimed to negoiate a settlement that would allow the half million U.S. troops in Vietnam to be withdrawn, while still allowing South Vietnam to survive. -
This operation, authorized by President Nixon, was the bombing of North Vietnamese and Vietcong bases within Cambodia
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In Paris, peace talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans breakdown.
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North Vietnam and the United States resume peace talks in Paris
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All warring parties in the Vietnam War sign a cease fire.
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Of the more than 3 million Americans who have served in the war, almost 58,000 are dead, and over 1,000 are missing in action. Some 150,000 Americans were seriously wounded.