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From the late 1800s until World War 2,France ruled most of Indochina including Vietnam
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France,however,had no intention of relinquishing its former colony
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America's involvement in Vietnam began in 1950
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Upon entering the White House in 1953,President Eisenhower continued the policy of supplying aid to the French war effort
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Although he directed a brutal and repressive regime,Ho Chi Minh won popular support in the North by breaking up large estates and redistributing land to peasants
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While the US military in the 1960s did not allow females to serve in combat,10,000 women served in Vietnam
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The Kennedy administration,which entered the White House in 1961,also chose initially to "swim"
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Nort Vietnamese patrol boat fired a torpedo at an American destroyer
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US government had sent more than 180,000 Americans to Vietnam
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Much of the nation supported Lyndon Johnson's determination to contain comunism in Vietnam
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A frustrating war of attrition
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McCarthy's early campaingn attracted little notice,but in weeks following Tet it picked up steam
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-The My lai massacre
-The invasion of cambodia
-violence on campus
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As President Nixon settled into the White House in January of 1969,negotiations to end the war in Vietnam were going nowhere
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American Veterans cope back home
