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Pentagon Papers
from 1945-1967 a top-secret department of Defense study of the US political and military involvement in Vietnam -
Chemical Warfare
through 1961- 1971 the US attacked with chemicals over 73 million liters of it -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Johnson could do anything he wanted without asking Congress first
President- Lyndon B Johnson -
US troops sent in
In a response to the Gulf of Tonkin the US sent troops into Vietnam to help
President- Lyndon B Johnson -
Draft
Men were drafted into the war to fight
President-Lyndon B Johnson -
Rolling Thunder
100 US air force and Vietnam air force plans dropped bombs attacking North Vietnam
Presdient- Richard M, Nixon -
Tet Offensive
A big defeat for the USA and Lyndon Johnson turned Americans against the war
President- Lyndon B Johnson -
My Lai Massacre
A mass murder of unarmed south Vietnamese civilians
President- Richard Nixon -
Vietnamization
Strategy by the US the pull out of the war and train Vietnam troops to defend for themselves
President- Richard Nixon -
Invasion Of Cambodia
Nixon declared on television that he was going to invade Cambodia
President- Richard Nixon -
End in US involvement in the War
The US pulled out of the war and South Vietnam were on their own
President- Richard Nixon -
Fall of Saigon
capture of Saigon the capital of South Vietnam marked the end of the Vietnam War
President-Gerald Ford
