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The U.s drops the Atomic Bomb during the end of World War II
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China sends aids and ships to help the Vietnam.
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The French were forced to leave Vietnam because they were defeated.
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They sent over more aid and ships.
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Communist attack in South Vietnam
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He was the youngest president, and also the first Catholic president.
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a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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After the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese. Diem and his brother were captured and killed by a group of soldiers.
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He was shot in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, in a presidential motorcade
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North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach
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He was elected President in 1968, won re-election in 1972, and resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal.
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This ended the involvement with Americans in the Vietnam War
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Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam
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He was the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment against him for being involved in the Watergate affair.
