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The Geneva Accords divide Vietnam in half -
Formation of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam -
President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret 'Special Advisors to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of 'counter-insurgency' in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas -
President Kennedy then sends additional military advisors along with American helicopter units to transport and direct South Vietnamese troops in battle, thus involving Americans in combat operations -
350 Viet Cong fighters defeat a large force of American-equipped South Vietnamese troops. Three American helicopter crew members are killed. -
President Kennedy assassinated; Vice President Lyndon Johnson succeeds him -
Three North Vietnamese boats allegedly fire torpedoes at the USS Maddox, a destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin -
second attack with spectacular eyewitness accounts although no journalists had been on board the destroyers. This attack was false and was whether events they think. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy -
The U.S. wins Battle of Ia Drang Valley, the first battle of the war. Heavy casualties on both sides -
U.S. uses B-52's and start bombing north vietnam -
Number of U.S. forces in Vietnam reaches 385,000 -
U.S. troops reach their highest level of the war, 543,400 -
the battle had heavy casualties, this was one of the last major battles of the war. caused an outcry in the US people -
U.S. troop levels have been decreased by 115,000 soldiers -
no longer lets nixon any measures he wanted