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This Timeline contains very important events that occured during the Vietnam War.
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Returns to Vietnam after fleeing Indochina and apending several years in exile in the Soviet Union and China
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Japan surrenders control over Indochina after the Allies' victory over them
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French troops return and force Vietminh forces into hiding in the countryside
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Britain decides to give India their independence
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(Exact date is unknown) Eisenhower continued to support the French military campaign against the Vietminh after taking office.
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(Exact date of establishment is unsure) United States was paying roughly three-fourths of France's war costs. Domino Theory--> the belief that if Vietnam fell to ommunism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia.
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The French force at Dien Bien Phu fell to the Vietminh The defeat convinced the French to make preace and withdraw from Indochina.
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Divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel, with Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh in control of North Vietnam and a pro-Western Regime in control of the South. Exact date of beginning of Geneva Accords is uncertain, but it took place during the year of 1956
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Diem, a Catholic, banned the raditional religious flaga for Buddha's birthday. Buddhists went to the streets in an outrage, 9 were killed, and 14 were injured. A Buddhist monk went to the streets and simply set himself on fire--> stark symbol of the oppositing to Diem.
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Lodge arrives in Vietnam and was shocked at how unpopular Diem had become.
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Diem was executed shortly afterwards
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Authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the Untied States and to prevent further aggression.
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Johnson expanded American involvement by shifting his policy to a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
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Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a massive surprise attack. Guerrilla fighters attacked almost all of the American air bases in South Vietnam and most major Southern cities and provincial capitals.
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The process of making South Vietnam assume more of the war effort by slowly withdrawing American troops from Vietnam.
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Kent State University Ohio National Guard opened fire on demonstrators without an order to do so and killed 4 students, and left 9 others injured.
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The 26th Amendment was ratified, giving all people age 18 and older the right to vote in all State and Federal elections. (Exact date is uncertain)
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Opposing sides signed an agreement which ended the war and restored the peace in Vietnam
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(Date is uncertain) Promoted a way to reestablish some limits on executive power.
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North Vietnam captured Saigon, South Vietnam's capital--> Vietnam united under Communist rule.
