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The MAAG was created to help the french who were in Vietnam at the time by giving the vietnamise indirect millitary aid. It was also designed to help stop the spread of communism through out the rest of Indo-China.
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The french are defeated at the battle of Dien Bien Phu removing them from the Indo-China region. This gave freedom to the nations of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization or (SEATO) was designed by Dwight D. Eisenhower and was suposed to resemble the North American Treaty Organization or (NATO). This organization gave Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam special protection under the United states.
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The Ho Chi minh trail is discovered and is part of a bombing campaign known as opperation barrell roll.
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There was a civil war within cambodia between communists backed by the NVA and pro-western cambodians.
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Nixon begins illigally bombing cambodian soil to protect the pro western government of cambodia and destroy NVA supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail
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Nixon announces to the country that the US and south Vietnamese will be invading Cambodia as part of his Vietnamization project.
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Kent State protests begin the day after Nixon anounces the Cambodian Invasion. The local reserve officer training corps is burned down
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The National Guard takes defensive positions in Kent State as a response to the base burning on May 1, 1970
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The National Guard opens fire on a protest killing 4 students after a failed attempt to dispearse the crowd.
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The Kent State campus is shutdown. The national guard remainsed on sight though.
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US leaves the Cambodian front leaving the war mainly in the hands of the South Vietnamese. The US did however provide some areal and artillary assistance.
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Daniel Ellsberg releases documents showing the illigal cambodian bombings of 1969 to the New York Times. These are then published in the Newspaper.
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As a response to the pentagon papers congress passess The War Powers Resolutions act of 1973 which limits the presidential power over the millitary. This was used to ban all aid to Cambodia. This begins the process of the NVA pushing the South Vietnamese out of Cambodia and widening the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
