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Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos where in a french colony
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Japan had gave up to the Allies
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French warships opened fire on the port city of Haiphong
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Thousands of solders died in Korea trying to halt the spread of communism
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the french and Viet Minh signed the Geneva Accords
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The Viet Minh finally overran the French base, ending the battle of Bien Phu and shattering french morale.
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Kennedy offered his own version of the domino theory
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Regular units of the North Vietnamese Army began heading the south along its route to the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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The Viet Minh made a group called the National Liberation to invite all opponents of Diem
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Kennedy became president
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Lyndon B. Johnson expressed his ambivalent feeling about Vietnam to an adviser
