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A specialized North Vietnamese Army unit called Group 559 was formed to make a emergency supply route from North Vietnam tovforces in South Vietnam.
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Vice President Johnson comes back from Southeast Asia and tells President Kennedyb"US must either join the countries of Southeast Asia or retreat the defenses to San Fransico.
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President Kennedy meets President Diem and agrees that the
United States will increase the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 340 to 805 -
U.S. Helicopters were order to shoot first when encountering hostile forces after two helicopters are shot down
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South Vietnamese troops, enforcing a ban on the buddhist multi-colored flag, fire upon 20,000 Buddhists at Hue
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Troops that was loyal to President Diem dress up as regular troops and attack Buddhist temples and sanctuaries throughout the country
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South Vietnam President Diem is overthrown in a military coup. It took place with United States approval, which President Diem was killed during the coup
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The night of July 30, 1964, two south vietnamese commandos attacks two North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S destroyer Maddox, a spy ship is 123 miles south with orders to electronically simulate an air attack to draw North Vietnamese boats away from the commandos.
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U.S. congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which giving the President Johnson the power to take any or whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia
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Two days before the U.S. presidential election; The Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon;Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded. Five B-57 bombers are destroyed, and 15 are damaged
