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The very first protest to the U.S. getting involved in Vietnam was in 1945. U.S. Marine esailors condemed the U.S. for using U.S. merchant ships to transport french troops to "sunjugate the native population" of vientnam.
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The Vietnam war started on November 1 1955. The war started because President Eisenhower did not want Communism.
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President lyndon johnson announces that 2 days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the Northern Vietnamese.
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300,000 people, who were apart of the Spring Mobilization Committee, protest in New York City and in San Francisco.
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585 people were arrested because they we protesting the war with "Stop Draft Week".
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american soilders assulted the hamlet of My Lai. Capt. Ernest L. Medina, had ordered his men to burn and destroy the hamlet of My Lai
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Richard M. Nixon authorized the invasion of U.S. military forces into cambodia to disrupt the supply line.
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Involved the shooting of unarmed college student by the Ohio National Guard. This Killed 4 studentd and wounding 9 others.
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March against Racism and the War in Washington, D.C.
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Vietnam war ends
