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when the communist spread to the newly freed country of north veitnam they began to create a communist goverment with Ho Chi Minh in charge and his VeitMinh followers and the Veitcong which opposed south veitnam
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the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed U.S ground troops to go into Veitnam
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nearly 3,500 US marines where in vietnam
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US F-4C phantoms where targeted by The North Vietnam after they began a bombing on the city of Kang Chi
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the paratroopers of 101st airborne began droping in vietnam, Cam Ranh Bay
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5,500 marines destroyed a vietcong base Quang Nagi
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the Anti-War protest where heating up as a group of about 50 americans where expected to be aiding the vietcong and when they disturbed the meeting all of them would be arrested
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on the tet lunar new year celebration the south vietnamese called for a truce but the vietcong and the north attacked them anyway
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When a south vietnamese chief of police kill's a vietcong officer in the streets right in front of reporters and journalist the protest in america got even worse
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Lt. William Calley led a massacre of south vietnamese at My Lai and he was court marshalled
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week long negotiations in paris betwwen Xuan Thuy and henry kissinger began but in the end they ultimatly failed
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Pres. Nixon order an incursion of cambodia to destroy NLF's sanctruies bordering south vietnam this would lead to riots in kent state which led to students being shot to death
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the U.S withdrawl from south vietnam and the fall of saigon begins
