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Ho Chi Minh creates the National liberation committee Shorty after the surrender of the Empire of Japan.
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The United States senate met to discuss what is happening in vietnam and the best course of action to take
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The USS Maddox was fired upon by viet cong ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and was forced to fire back and hit the viet cong ships with help of air support
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USS Maddox falsely ready sonar equipment and believes the are under attack again. But all it was was bad weather and the News Of the second "Attack" made the president take action.
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Three days after the false report of an attack Johnson had come up with a plan to let the US help any foreign government fight communism enabling him to have the power to retaliate for the Tonkin incident
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In retaliation the the viet cong attacks on the us base in pleiku, Johnson ordered the bombing or north vietnamese cities
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A 3 year bombing campaign is ordered by President Johnson to Hit certain targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail, Marines Were dropped onto Da Nang beach beng the first real US ground troops sent to vietnam
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President Johnson ordered 50,000 more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam which in turn raised the draft to 35,000 Men per month
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6000 Marines were sent to fight the first regiment of vietcong fighters. This inevitably would be the first direct battle between the Us and viet cong troops. The Marines managed to Beat the front lines of the vietcong but they quickly regenerated.
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This was seen as the first true battle of vietnam. 300 americans were killed while thousands more are injured as a result helicopters would drop off reinforcements then be loaded with the wounded before taking off again
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The US attacked 2 cities in Northern Vietnam, Hanoi and Haiphong, 20,000 tons of bombs were dropped together on these 2 cities. As well as the deployment of 500,000 US troops.
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LBJ announces that he will not be running for reelection. With this he stops the bombing campaigns because of all the negativity and protest towards the war. LBJ not running for office led to Richard Nixon winning the election and ending the draft for vietnam.
