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Viet Minh defeated the French and was granted independence.
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The dividing line that set apart North and South Vietnam was set at the 17th Parallel.
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Us gave assistance to Ngo Dinh Diem to take control of the South Vietnamese and declared the republic of Vietnam and cancelled the election in 1955.
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JFK sent us military advisors to help train south vietnamese troops.
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Because the US thought that Diem was unsalvageable. The new leaders they choose where just as ineffective.
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North Vietnamese submarines attacked a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. After the Gulf of Tonkan Resoulition was passed which let the US send troops to Vietnam.
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There were around 400,000 troops in Vietnam.
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The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong launched a huge campaign attacking 30 US troops and dozens of other citys in South Vietnam.
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Frustrated United States soilders killed many innocent VIetnamese civilans.
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Outside of the Democratic National Convention protesters protested the War and resulted in police brutality.
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When guardsmen fired into a crowed at kentstate University it killed four students>
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a Cease fire was sighed in early 1973.
