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The French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, leading to negotiations that ended with the Geneva Agreements, July 21, 1954.
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The vietnamese had suffered under French colonail rule for nearly six decades when Japan invaded portions of vietnam in 1940.
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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The division was supposed to be temporary: elections were to be held in both sections in 1956 to determine the country’s future. When the time came, however, Diem resisted the elections; the more populous north would certainly win. Hanoi re-activated the Viet Minh to conduct guerilla operations in the south, with the intent of destabilizing President Diem’s government.
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In July 1959, North Vietnam’s leaders passed an ordinance called for continued socialist revolution in the north and a simultaneous revolution in South Vietnam.Some 80,000 Vietnamese from the south had moved to the north after the Geneva Agreements were signed.
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9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the official Vietnam era from August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975.
2,709,918 Americans served in uniform in Vietnam.58,148 were killed in Vietnam.75,000 were severely disabled.23,214were 100% disabled.
5,283 lost limbs.1,081 sustained multiple amputations.
Of those killed, 61% were younger than 21.11,465 of those killed were younger than 20 years old. -
The U.S. had the largest foreign military presence and basically directed the war from 1965 to 1968.
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President Nixon authorizes Operation Menu, the secret bombing of Cambodia .targeting North Vietnamese supply sanctuaries located along the border of Vietnam.There have been 33,641 Americans killed In this war
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The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later.
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The U.S. lost many strong men.The U.S. suffered over 47,000 killed in action plus another 11,000 noncombat deaths; over 150,000 were wounded and 10,000 missing.
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Vietnam was a French colony from the mid-19th century until its expulsion in 1954.
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100,000 NVA soldiers advance gather to hear president ford give a speach to all the soliders from the war.
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Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the 'Winston Churchill of Asia.'Alos Sends 400 men to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of counter-insurgency
