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Rumors of an American Invasion came up and Ho Chi Minh capitalizes and successfully spreads his movement.
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Peter Dewey, an American was killed by the Vietnams when Viet Minh guerrillas took his life because they thought he was a French officer.
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President Vincent Auriol of France and Bao Dai sign the Elysee Agreement and in the agreement it states that the French pledge is to help in the National Anti-Communist Army building.
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After the defeat of the French from Vietminh, Einsenhower says that after one is knocked out, it just continues.
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Richard Nixon is defeated by John F. Kennedy for Presidency.
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This was the first conventional battle takes place in the Ia Drang Valley where the North Vietnese and Americans do not get along. There were casualties on both sides, but the US First Air Calvary Division used a technique if aerial attack.
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Martin Luther King calls out the United States for being the cause of the war and says that they are encouraging war. He also suggested the civil rights group combine with antiwar.
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The US and South Vietnamese forces tried to recapture a site seized by Communists. This battle left the majority of the people in this area homeless.
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In Hanoi, President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic dies of a heart attack
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Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho come to an agreement to cease fire in Vietnam and says that "Peace is at Hand!"
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United States President Gerald Ford speaks out and says, "As far as the US is concerned, the Vietnam war is finished!"
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Huge crowds of VIetnamese refugees, try to escape to a better life but overcrowd boats. A lot of these people were also expelled from their homeland.
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The Vietnam Memorial is two black granite walls forming a "V" and was designed by 22 year old Maya Ling Yin from Yale. It listed all the names of the Americans killed in the war.
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The troops left Cambodia paving the way for UN elections in 1993, where a new constitution is formed.
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Douglas "Pete" Peterson is named US envoy to the Socialst Republic of Vietnam. He was a prisoner of war for six years. H.E. Le Van Bang takes the place as the Vietnamese ambassador for the US.
