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The Geneva Conference was a conference that focused on settling outstanding issues with Korea, Vietnam, and Indochina.
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On Nov 11 1960 a coup to over throw the South Vietnamese president was attempted by two of his colonels. The president stalled them and the loyalists came and the rebels were executed.
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In 1963 another coup was attempted on the president of South Vietnam when a group of ARV decided to get rid of him. America knew about the coup but decided not to do anything. The coup went off without a hitch and president Diệm was arrested and assassinated.
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The Tonkin Resolution is a joint resolution congress passed in reaction to the Tonkin incident. It allowed president Johnson to use conventional military force in southeast asia.
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The Phoenix Program was a covert program in action from 1965 to 1972. The program was designed to attack and destroy the infrastructure of the Viet Cong. They did this through arrests, attacks, interogations, and assassinations. It was reported that the Phoenix Program operatives neutralized 81740 NFL operatives and of them between 21000 and 40000 were assassinated.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was a bombing campaign that lasted three years. The US intended to put pressure on the North Vietnam leaders.
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Operation Starlite was one of the first major offensive pure military attacks done by the US in the Vietnam War.
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The Tet Offensive was a series of attackes on over 100 South Vietnamese cities by the North Vietnamese. This was a major turning point in the war and began the US withdrawal of Vietnam.
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The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 504 civilians by the US Army.
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When Nixon took office in 1969 he introduced a plan to end American involvement in the Vietnam war called Vietnamization by transferring all military responsibility to South Vietnam.
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Operation Menu was a United States covert bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia and Laos. It was aproved by Nixon but it was kept secret from Congress.
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Hamburger Hill Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle fought for Hill 937. It was fought by the US, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam. The US was critisized for just throwing ground troops at the heavily fortified hill causing many casualties, but they eventualy took the Hill.
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Madman Theory was an image that Nixon wanted to project to the communists through out the Vietnam War. He wanted them to think that he was crazy, and ready to end the Vietnam War at any time with the use nuclear weapons, all though The communists never really bought it even though he flew bombers armed with nuclear weapons around the soviet border for three days.
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The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in Eastern Cambodia. The purpose of the campaign was to eliminate the 40000 PAVN and NLF Soldiers enscounsed in Eastern Cambodia.
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During the Vietnam War people didn't get how it was ok that an 18 year old kid could be drafted to fight for his country but can not vote. So they passed the 26th Amendment that lowered the legal voting age to 18.
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The Easter Offensive was the biggest and one of the last offensive attacks done by North Vietnam. It was not designed to win the war but to gain as much territory and take out as many enemy troops as they could.
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At Kent State in 1972 the national guard opened fire on a group of college students that were protesting the Cambodian Campaign, and they killed 4 and wounded 9.
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The US reached a peace agrement in Paris that ended hostilities and soon they began to withdraw their troops.
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The War Powers Act or War Resolution Act is a federal law that is intended to check the presidents power to start a war without the consent of congress.
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On April 30 tanks rolled through the gates of presidential palace in Saigon and the war came to an end.
