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The US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes responsibility, from French, for training South Vietnamese forces.The French can no longer stay in Vietnam. Now the US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) are in charge of training the Southern troops in military combat in order to defeat the North.
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He forms a secret plan for special forces to enter Northern Vietnam and Laos. This is Kennedy's first big move in the Vietnam war. He increases the number of military advisors.
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This Memorandum relinquishes the troops from their stay in Vietnam. It planned to be fully completed by the year 1965. Unfortunately, J.F.K. was assassinated later that year making Lyndon B. Johnson president. Johnson removes the memorandum starting initiatives to “full-scale war”.
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Northern Vietnamese naval troops purposefully attack U.S. war ships in international waters. This sparks much heated debate over the resolution.
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The U.S. starts off the Vietnam War by implementing their new fighting technique called aerial reconnaissance. This is an important event because it is the first battle of the war, and the U.S. successfully won.
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As Lyndon B. Johnson is newly elected to office, he faces a tough decision. Johnson sends the first U.S. troops on foot to Vietnam.
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The U.S. has increased their number of military men in Vietnam significantly. More and more men are being sent, around 1,400,000, and the American’s involvement is being questioned.
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Multiple protests are taking place all over the country. U.S. citizens, including veterans from WWI and WWII, no longer want to fund the war efforts or send their men out to fight a “meaningless” fight.
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Northern Vietnam and the Viet Cong decide to break the truce that lead to the Lunar New Year. They swept through multiple cities killing thousands of people. The Americans and South Vietnam were not expecting this believing that the end of the war was near. This was a turning point in the war because now troops lacked domestic support.
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On March 16, men of the 11th Brigade entered and destroyed the village of My Lai. They killed the innocent lives of unarmed villagers making this one of the most shameful tirades of U.S. troops. Military men are losing their humanity and civility due to the increasing pressures of the war.
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This election gives hope to Americans that things will change. Nixon has promised to change multiple efforts on the war during his campaign.
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Vietnamization is the process of removing U.S. troops and placing responsibility of the fighting on the Southern Vietnamese Army. This is the first announcement by the presidential cabinet to stop the war.
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This is the significant decrease. It allows U.S. citizens to see the process of “Vietnamization” and acknowledge that something is being done.
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The Paris Peace Accords is an agreement to cease-fire. It “officially ended direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War”. It took around sixty days to fully withdraw all U.S. forces. This is end of U.S. involvement and the thought to believe the end of the war.
