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The Viet Mnh lunched its first attack on the french.
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In his speech Nixon supported troops commitment to the french.
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The Fernch Surrenderd to Viet Mnh forces.
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Bao Dai names Ngo Dinh Diem the new leader of what will become South Vietnam.
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an agrement to divide vietnam.
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Times magazine features Ho Chi Monh in it is cover
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Two military advisors are killed by Viet Minh guerilla soldiers in a raid at Bien Hoa in South Vietnam.
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327 to 685 the number of US advisors n the military
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Democrat John F. Kennedy defeats Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States.
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President Ngo Dinh Diem defeats an attempted coup by his own South Vietnamese government forces, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
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this will mark the begineeing of the war
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Two South Vietnamese VC pilots bomb Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace. Diem escapes the assassination attempt.