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Vietnam declared its independence.
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French warships opened on the port city of Haiphong, killing some 6000 Vietnamese civilians.
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Aid rose from 10 million to 100 million by 1951
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The United States was paying 80 percent of the war in Indochina
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when the Viet Minh launched a surprise attack on a large french military base at Dien Bien Phu.
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the french and Viet Minh signed the Geneva Accords
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Eisenhower warned that if Vietnam fell to communism the rest of southeast asia would topple like a row of dominoes
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The Viet Minh finally overran the French base, ending the battle of Dien Bien Phu and shattering French Morale.
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The United States used its influence to put an anticommunist South Vietnamese leader, Ngo Dinh Diem, in charge.
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Under the Accords, national elections to reunify Vietnam
