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Nazi Germany takes control of France
The troops began invading Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France on May 1940 but finished June 1940 -
Ho Chi Minh establishes the league for the independence of Vietnam
on May 1941 the Viet Minh movement aims to resist Japanese and French occupation of vietnam. -
Ho Chi Minh rejects a french proposal
this proposal was going to grant vietnam limited self government, this began a guerrilla war against the french -
The French install former emperor Bao Dai as head of state in Vietnam.
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The first U.S. soldiers are killed in South Vietnam when guerrillas raid their living quarters near Saigon.
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President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
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President Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam
This was in the operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid in Pleiku -
U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000.
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Under strict communist rule, North and South Vietnam was officially united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
