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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, is the response to this event. The french are defeated and surrender to President Eisenhower.
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Vietnam was divided at the seventeenth parallel.
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The idea behind the "Domino Theory" is that if Southeast Asia collapses or attacks, every other country will collapse and so on and so fourth.
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After this event President Eisenhower purposes an idea to get involved in another land war in Asia.
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Diem cancels the election of 1956 due to Minh's popularity.
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The National front also known as, the Vietminh, occupied North Vietnam.
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Thich Quang Duc, was a buddist monk.
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Kennedy tried to avoid getting involved in the war as much as possible, but still supported the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. If he carried on being the president, maybe the U.S. would not have gotten invloved in the action, instead of LBJ trying to find any reaso at all to start the war for America.
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Once the United States withdraws heir support, Diem is assassinated.
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President Johnson claims the Vietnamese boats attacked thr U.S.S Maddox. In response to the attack the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was created. It made in legal justification for bombing.
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The first U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam to protect their American Air Force base.
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Important rebel leader. He created his own army called The Vietminh to fight for North Vietnam's freedom.
