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Ngo Dinh Diem is named the new leader of soon to be South Vietnam
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The Geneva Accords is signed by France and Ho Chi Minh this was to divide Vietnam at the seventeenth parallell.United States and South Vietnamese government refused to sigh.
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Campaign begins of guerrilla warfare against Diems administration
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Viet Minh killed two military advisors in a raid at Bien Hoa.
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John F Kennedy becomes the 35th president over Richard Nixon
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South Vietnam forms a national front for liberationto destroy Viet Cong which is funded by Norht Vietnam
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First reported American serviceman dies which started the Vietnam War
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Ngo Dihn Diems palace is bombed by two South Vietnamese pilots. Diem escaped.
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Shots are fired into a crowd of monks by South Vietnamese police. They were going against Preisdent Diem
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General Duong Van Minh overthrows Diem. General Duong is recognized by US/
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USS Maddox was attacked by Vietnamese gunboats in Gulf of Tonkin. There was no casualties and it was on routine patrol
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For the first time Lyndon Johnson ordered retaliatory strikes on North Vietnam after gunboats attack the USS Maddox again
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President Johnson is able to do whatever is necessary to protect South Vietnam from Viet Cong due to US congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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