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The United States and 7 other countries formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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The Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1960 at the University of Michigan which challenged the war, racism, and poverty.
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The north vietnamese boat fired torpedoes at a US destroyer causing the U.S. to take action and send troops.
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Gave the president the power to send troops without having congress declare war
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After vietcong killed American troops in pleiku Johnson ordered the first sustained bombing on North Vietnam.
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Richard Nixon won the election beating out Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace.
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A racist assassin shot and killed King in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968 and in June 1968 Robert Kennedy was killed by a palestinian immigrant who wanted revenge for his country.
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The Tet offensive was a coordinated assult on 36 provincal capitals and 5 cities including the U.S embassy in saigon.
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An American Unit began shooting and killing unarmed citizens infright of them being vietcong. They killed between 4 and 5 hundred people.
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Ho Chi Minh dies and President Nixon begins to reduce US ground troops in Vietnam.
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Nixon's national security advisor Henry Kissinger for is sent to paris to talk about a peace treaty
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Impatient with the slow peace talks Nixon sent troops on a ground attack into Cambodia trying to break the communists morals and restore the Cambodian government.
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Nixons speech led many protests at colleges such as kent state. On may 4th protesters threw rocks at the national guard and one shot so the rest followed killing 4 students.
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The Pentagon Papers showed that American leaders Involved the U.S in vietnam without fully telling the people and occasionaly even lied to the people
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President Nixon easily beat canadit George McGovern for reelection.
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The United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed the treaty agreeing to a cease fire.
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The War Powers Act restricted the presidents war making power by having to consult congress within 2 days of commitment.
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The Khmer Rouge Executed 2 million Cambodians who had ties to the west making comunism stronger which lasted from 1975 to 1979.
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Without American help south vietnam fell to north vietnam making vietnam a communist country.
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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is created under a communist ruler.
