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Both north and south Vietnam where united under Ho Chi Minh and the contry was free from foregn domination. This piriod only lasted a few weeks in the fall of 1945.
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japan surenders to the allied forces signaling the end of WWII.
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Also called the secon Indochina war and the resistance war against America. direct US involvement stopped in april of 1975 and the north and south reunited the following year.
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The strength of this rebelion came from Vietnamese peasants who wished to change thair own lives.
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the protesting began in 1963 in Saigon when a Buddhist monk sat down in the public square and set himself on fire. after that more monks followed suit. protests continued and where joined by american citizens in early 1968 (40,000 american soldiors where dead by this time and 250,000 where wounded) No end whas in sight. however the slogan "We Wont Go" had been widly publisized since 1969. in 1965 thousands of employees left In 1967 there where organized draft-card "turnins" all over the contry.
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Acording to McNaughton this would create a counterproductive "wave" that would halt the revolution. he warned the the us population and the rest of the world would have a limit to how far the US is permitted to go. "The picture of the worlds greatest superpower killing or siriously injuring 1000 noncombatants a week.. is not a pretty one."
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a company of american soldiors entered My Lai in the Quang Ngai provence on march 16 1968 and rounded up the inhabitants including elderly women and childrenand ordered them into a ditch where they where all shot to death. 450 to 500 people mostly women children and older men where burried in mass graves.
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This was also when the protesting of the vietnam war peakedwith hundreds of thousands os students from across the contry protesting. and picketing outside the white house with the slogan "120,000 american casualtys- Why?" not only that but it also lead to a millitary failure and was the bigining of a long string of such.
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It was not untill late 1973 when american troops where finaly all removed from vietnam and cece fire agreement was made.
