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The Vietnam war started because the U.S. was trying to stop the spread of communism
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The U.S milirary planted orange containers to expose roads and trails used by Vietcong forces.
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Sustained American bombing raids of North Vietnam. The nearly continuous air raids would go on for 3 years.
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A cease-fire agreement that, in the words of Richard Nixon, "brings peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia,"
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The Vietnam war ended
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South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh delivers an unconditional surrender to the Communists in the early hours of April 30. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin accepts the surrender. As the few remaining Americans evacuate Saigon, the last two US servicemen to die in Vietnam are killed when their helicopter crashes.
