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Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam is assassinated by his own generals. The United States were sympathetic to this cause.
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After JFK was assassinated, LBJ was sworn into office while inside Air Force One.
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Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the president broader powers to wage war in Vietnam.
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The sustained bombing of North Vietnam by the USAF, USN, and even the VNAF.
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An attack on all US bases by the Vietcong during the Vietnamese new year, the "Tet".
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The massacre of 300+ civilians in the My Lai and My Khe hamlets by American soldiers. Called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam war."
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Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
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LBJ announces that he is not running for president again. Nixon wins next election for the republicans.
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College students at Kent State protest the Vietnam War. The Ohio guard are called and four students are shot and killed. No order was given to fire upon the protesters.
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Limited the powers the president has over war.
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An armistice was signed by the US and North Vietnam. The US soon left South Vietnam. North Vietnam invades South Vietnam after the US leaves.
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North Vietnam captures the South Vietnamese Capitol of Saigon. It is later renamed to Ho Chi Minh City.
