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It was necessary for this to happen becasue it would prevent communism in asia which was made by an xecutive decision.
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As vice president Nixon states "if to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and Indochina we must take the risk now of putting our boys in, I think the Executive has to take the politically unpopular decision and do it."
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The French decide to surrender and when this is done The Geneva Conference on the status of Indochina starts. The Vietnamese independence party were fighting the French and Japanese in order to gain their independence.
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The first reported American deaths were two military advisors were killed by Viet Minh guerilla soldiers in a raid in South Vietnam.
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The US has JFK as president.
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The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF) is formed.This group was being funded by North Vietnamese government, and staffed by Ex-Viet Minh guerilla soldiers from the South.
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A Buddhist monk sets himself on fire to protest against the war. His name was Thich Quang Duc, and he was a 66-year-old.His protest focused on religious intolerance, and discriminatory policies.
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This is when the first U.S. combat units arrive in Vietnam.
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It was estimated that over 30,000 people attend a three-day anti-war teach-in at U.C. Berkeley.
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Over 100,000 people attend Martin Luther King Jr rally in New York.
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Ho Chi Minh dies at the age of 79.
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The last troops left in vietnam depart.
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Nixon is reelected
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The Vietnames and US sign a peace agreement to end the war. This is when the US begins to with draw their troops.
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600 American POWs are realeases by North Vietnam.
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The war between Vietnam and the US was offically declared to be over.
