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The united states pledges 15 million dollars worth of military aid to France to help them fight Vietnam.
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French suffer a decisive defeat at th ebattle of Dien Bien phu
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The Geneva accords creates a cease-fire for the peaceful withdrawel of the French from Vietnam and provides a temporary boundary between north and south vietnam at the 17th parallel.
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South Vietnam declares itself the Republic of vietnam, with newly elected Ngo Dinh Diem as president. The vietcong was later established in south vietnam.
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The NLF also known as the viet cong was established in south Vietnam. A political organization and army in South Vietnam that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War.
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He was excuted durring a coup. He was the U.S inside man but he was very unpopular and the south was being beaten by the NVA so diem was executed for his poor leadership.
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A incident off the Gulf of Tonkin occured when the NVA attacked two us destroyers off the Gulf of Tonkin. Which caused a negative outcome for the NVA. Congress gave LBJ a "blank check".
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This was a resolution passed by congress allowing LBJ to send as many troops over to vietnam as necessay to look out for the best interest for the united states. This was reffered to as a blank check.
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Operation Rolling Thunder goals were to boost the lowered morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam, to persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam, to destroy North Vietnam's transportation system, industrial base, and air defenses, and to cease the flow of men and material into South Vietnam. This really was a chance to get back at them by bombing the NVA.
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An invasion of a village in My lai by the U.S troops and "charlie" company in South Vietnam because they thought there were vc memebers there. They went in and killed hundreds of children and women. There were no vc memebers there. It was a masacere that was unecessay by a lot. Some of them were mutalated or raped as well. All that were involved got charged but the only member that was convicted was second leitenant William Calley.
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America learns of the My Lai masacere and then become very angry and against the war and the tatics that were being used and the measures that were taken that took inocent lives. This created a higher percentage of doves than hawks.
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Policy of Nixon administration during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
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The pentagon papers were papers stolen by burgelers that were never caught. These were documents that contained many years of secret information and could and would bring many Prominent Figures down including Nixon, and created a bad image on Hoover for Cointelpro.
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intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War, ended direct U.S. military involvement, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. Henry Kissinger was a prominent figure apart of this negotiation.
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South Vietnam surrenders to the communists or the NVA which was the fall of Saigon which was later turned into Ho Chi Minh city.
