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Munich Pact was to appease Hitler and allow for the continued aggression that led to World War II
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Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese communist who help oppose foreign occupation known as Viet Minh
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Japan surrenders to the Allies. Ho Chi Minh decides to declare it's Independence with reading words from Declaration of Independence.
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6,000 Vietnamese civillians were attacked by French warships on a city called Haiphong.
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Truman decided to increase military aid for French Indochina. The aid rose from $10 million to $100 million in 1 year. Us was paying 80% of the war cost.
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Viet Minh signed the Geneva Accords. Which ended the violence between Vietnam and French. Vietnam became along the 17th parallel for a while.
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Viet Minh ended The Battle of Dien Bien Phu by overraning the French Base and shattered French Morale.
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Kennedy offered his on version of domino theory. He favored the policy of containing communism.
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Viet Minh formed a group named National Liberation Front and invited all of the Diem to join. Diem named them Viet Cong , short for Vietnamese communists.
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The South Vietnamese police killed nine demonstrators at this rally. It was a Buddhist rally opposing Diem's policies. Some Buddhist monks protested by setting themselves on fire.
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Johnson approved covert attacks on radar stations. South Vietnamese in speedboats carried out raids.
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First major assault by US ground troops. 1500 Viet Cong were going to attack a US air base near the coast. The battle started with bomb attacks.
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The landing of the first combat forces made conflict change in Vietnam. The us took over the responsibility for the fighting the war.
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Viet Cong was attacked by a US air base in South. Lyndon B Johnson responded by ordering the bombing of barracks and miltary staging areas north of the 17th parallel.
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3,500 Us Marines waded ashore at a beach in South Vietnam, Several Vietnamese women set flowers around soldiers necks.l
