Viet Nam

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    US in Viet Nam

  • French Return to Indo China

  • Dien Bien Phu

    Eisenhower refuses to bring air support
  • Kennedy increases advisors

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Two US destroyers suporting SV insurgents. Fired upon
  • LBJ increases troop levels dramatically

  • Resistnace to the war increases domestically

  • Tet Offensive

    The US is not winning
  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon study of the wekness of the war effort. Ellsberg
  • Troop withdrawal

    We withdraw