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The Paris Peace Accords is signed.
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The last US troops are drawn from Vietnam.
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The French invaded Vietnam and made it their colony.
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Ho Chin Mih, a Vietnamese communist leader, prime minister and president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, founded the Indochina Communist Party, a political party derived from the old Vietnamese Communist Party; the old Vietnamese Communist Party was unity of the Communist Party of Indochina and the Communist Party of Annam.
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This invasion was to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel.
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Ho Chin Mih established Viet Mih (institute for Vietnamese Independence against French Rule).
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Viet Minh infiltrated Vietnam and launched a guerrilla operations against the Japanese. They were successful and liberated almost all of northern Vietnam to form Hanoi; and called it the Independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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A base of mass support was established in north Vietnam (army of 5000 soldiers).
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Minh proclaims Vietnam independent of French rule.
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Around 6000 Vietnamese civilians were killed in a French naval bombardment in Haiphong, thus the start of the first Indochina war.
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China sends military advisors and weapons to the warfront.
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The United States pledged $15 million worth of military aid to France and received $2.6 billion in financial support from US.
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The French are defeated.
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These agreements were reached at the end of the Geneva Conference. The agreements brought an end to the first Indochina war, the French agreed to ceasefire, and withdraw troops from the are. French Indochina was split into three countries, and temporary boundary were created between North and South Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
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A sustained U.S. aerial bombing campaign of North Vietnam begins.
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The National Liberation Front is established in South Vietnam.
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United States sent in 2,000 military advisors to support the South’s government.
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North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters.
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U.S. congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in response to the gulf of Tonkin incident.
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
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North Vietnamese join forces with Viet Cong to launch the tet offensive, and attacked about 100 south Vietnamese cities and towns.
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U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the town of Mai Lai.
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General William Westmoreland was replaced by general Creighton Abrams (who is in charge of the U.S. troops in Vietnam).
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The American public learns of the Mai Lai massacre.
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President Nixon announced that U.S. troops will attack enemy locations in Cambodia. This sparks protests.
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Portions of the pentagon papers were published in the New York Times.
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Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973, requiring the president to receive explicit Congressional approval before committing American forces overseas.
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Vietnam is named one of the poorest countries due to the war.