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The United States contribute $2.6 billion to France war efforts
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Dwight D. Eisenhower takes office
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The French lose their eight-year struggle to regain Vietnam
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The United States and seven other countries formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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After suffering some 15,000 casualties, the French surrender
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The accords call for free elections to unify Vietnam
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JFK is elected
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JFK sent special forces troops to South Vietnam to advise the Army of the Republic of Vietnam on more effective ways to fight the communist forces.
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more than 15,000 American advisors were fighting in Vietnam
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Diem is removed from power and later assassinated
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student activism led to a clash with administrators and police in 1964
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President Johnson faced his first crisis in Vietnam. North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the American destroyer USS Maddox.
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US airstrikes hammered North Vietnam and Vietcong strong points in South Vietnam.
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there were 184,300 troops in Vietnam and only 636 American soldiers had died.
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U.S. Marines arrived to defend the air base at Da Nang.
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War developed into a stalemate
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Congress and most of America divided into two camps: hawks and doves
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At a New York church, king said that the war was hurting both blacks and whites.
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more than half a mill u.s. troops in Vietnam and 30,000 had died.
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North Vietnamese Army hit Khe Sanh in northwest south Vietnam
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Lieutenant William Calley's unit began shooting and killed unarmed civilians
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President addressed that bombing would be limited on TV
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the selective service adopts a lottery that was designed to eliminate deferment abuses and create a more diverse army of draftees
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Antiwar rally in downtown New York City, construction workers decided to demonstrate carrying American flags and chanting "All the Way USA"
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The U.S.,south, Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the vietcong signed the Paris Peace Accords
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