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After their defeat in WWII, the Japanese are kicked out of Vietnam. The Vietnamese see this as a chance to gain independence.
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Creation of the 38th parallel, a division of South and North Korea.
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The war between the French and the Vietnamese begin.
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The US and and the Soviet union remove their army from Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim II Snug, travels to Moscow to ask personally Joseph Stalin for his permission to attack South Korea. This was the beginning of the Korean War.
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The UN send an international force to stop the invasion to support South Korea.
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North Korean forces cross the border (the 38th parallel) and attack South Korea.
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After North Korea advanced into south Korea, Douglas Macarthur led a surprising attack towards North Korea, pushing their forces away.
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North korea Swept across the 38th parrallel and surprise attacked the south. Within days the North Korean army reached deep into the south. Truman compared the North Koreans behavior to hitlers agression and truman resolved to help South Korea resist communism
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North Korea controlled the entire Korean peninsula except for Pusan in the SouthEast.
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When the UN forces push the North Korean forces until the Chinese border, the Chinese send 200,000 troops into North Korea to fight back.
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The Chinese forces push South Korean troops out of North Korea and capture the South Korean capital. Macarthur proposes a nuclear attack towards the Chinese, but the US President Truman saw this as very dangerous and so removed him immediately from the army.
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Fighting continues and UN troops obtain authority over South Korea.
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The UN and South Korea sign an agreement of a border that divided North and South Korea, that was in fact not that far from the original 38th parallel.
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The French forces surrender to Ho Chi Minh.
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International Peace Conference that divided Vietnam into the North which was led by Ho Chi Minh’s communist government, and the South which was an anti-communist government set by the US and france and led by Diem.
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Diem was murdered after his dictatorship.
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After the North Vietnamese had attacked the US ships, the US fights back and sends soldiers.
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Soldiers send to war.
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The war between North and South Vietnam ended.
