history

By popkenn21
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    vienam war history

  • start of Korean war

    North Korea invaded south Korea starting the Korean war

  • no opening shot

    vietnam did fire the opening shot us the us gradually got inloved

  • JFK becomes president

    he saw Vietnam as place for America to prove their anti communist resolve

  • numbers of americans rising in Vietnam

    it rad risen from 700 to 16,000 military advisors

  • law passed

    president can now have control of going to war

  • full scale military intervention

    by the end of the year more than 200,000 us troops were in Vietnam

  • mass demonstration

    20,000 people in washington took place in a mass demonstration

  • johnson extricates the us from vietnam

  • numbers falling

    by the end of 1970 there were only 220,000 still in vietnam

  • the paris oeace accords

    called for fighting and all troops to be withdrawn

  • wars cost

    at least 3 million people were killed

  • vietnam favortiving americans

    25% of the population is younger than 15 and were born in the booming cities had a favorable impressions of americans and are familiar with american tv

  • hung ba le

    now 39 his is returning for the first time to the country he had fled with his parents in 1975

  • bill clintion

    lifted the us trade embargo