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Ho-Chi-Minh makes declaration speech, and uses quotes from the US constitution.
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This agreement seperated Vietnam into a North and a South territory.
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President Eisenhower is re-elected after beating out Adlai Stevenson.
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The National Liberation Front is organized. This political and militarial organization was also referred to as the Viet Cong. It fought the US.
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John F. Kennedy was ecpected president. He was the first Catholic president.
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Kennedy is assinated and pronounced dead 4 hours later. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president while on Air Force One.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected for a second term after he became president after JFK's assasination.
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3,500 US Marines land in South Vietnam, These are the first troops to arrive in Vietnam.
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The Viet Cong launch a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command centers in South Vetnam.
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President Richard Nixon is elected president.
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500,000 demonstraters against the war silently walked through DC protesting the war.
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This invasion was made to defeat 40,000 Viet Cong and PAVN North Vietnamese troops. This goal was to be accomplished by a series of attacks, bombings and battles.
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The American troops are withdrawn. Nixon gives end of war speech. A ceasfire with North Vietnam is created, and they release all of their American hostages
