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Vietnam has now created its own identity and is moving towards independence
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Ho Chi Minh wrote to the U.S. asking for American Support in their fight for independence. Minh was a Communist revolutionary which America would soo become an enemy of
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Military advisors are begining to give aid to Saigon on behalf of the United States which also begins the ties between the U.S. and South Vietnam.
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President Nixon of the United States commits to send U.S. troops to wietnam in support of the Southern Vietnamese
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IndoChina divided into four different sections; North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
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The Geniva Convenssion is announced which will be comprised of a negotiator from both the U.S. and North Vietnam
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Diem becomes the president of South Vietnam. This is a large step in establishing a separaation between the government of South and North Vietnam
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On this day President Kennedy was assacinated and LBJ would not take over in the midst of the Vietnam War
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In the Gulf of Tonkin off of the Vietnamese cost it was alledged that the North Vietnamese attacked American ships and theefore America would now fully engage in the war
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The American government made the decision to begin an ongoing bombing raid on cambodia. This was in order to damage the North Vietnamese
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Veterans of WWI and WWII came together in order to protest the war in Vietnam. These protests would soon put immense pressure on the American Government.
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The North Vietnamese decided to host a surprise attack on American troops in South Vietnam, taking over small cities on the way
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Negotiators from both America and North Vietnam meet in order to discuss a compromise as a solution to the war
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Nixon declares Operation Breakfast which was a last ditch effort to destroy communism however, the operation would only enhance the North Vietnamese dislike for America.
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Nixon announces that he is going to withdraw American troops from Vietnam officially.
