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Diplomats from multiple countries agree that Vietnam would be split into North and South, with the US supporting the South.
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Civil War erupts in Vietnam after Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold reelections
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John F Kennedy is takes office as president.
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Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 and Diem on November 2nd.
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North Vietnamese attacked US destroyer boats.
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This resolution gave President Johnson power to send more military force into Vietnam.
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100,000 rotestors march on the Pentagon against the emergin war in Vietnam. President Johnson's safety was feared.
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North Korean forces captured the USS Pueblo and imprisoned the 83 men for spying. This shocked America.
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North Vietnamese forces attacked US bases and major South Vietnam cities on the Vietnamese new year, Tet. US/S. Vietnam won.
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American troops killed at least 350 people in the Vietnamese town of My Lai.
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Richard Nixon wins the US Presidential Election, garnering 301 electoral votes.
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Nixon announces Vietnamization to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
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Unarmed university students at Kent State protesting the war we fired at by the Ohio National Guard, killing 4 and injuring 9.
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The Paris Peace Accords ended US involvement in the Vietnam War by signing the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.
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After the Watergate scandal, President Nixon resigned from office to avoid impeachment.
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President Dương Văn Minh surrenders in the South Vietnamese city of Saigon, ending the war.
