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France agrees to withdraw from Vietnam due to the Geneva Accords
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President Eisenhower refused to leave Vietnam to the communist because the fall of South Vietnam would lead to communist expansion.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes the 35th president of the United States
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Invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American trained Cubans, the invaders were badly outnumbered and surrendered in under 24 hours of fighting.
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While John F. Kennedy was going through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas President Kennedy gets shot
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes 36th president and swore an oath after President Kennedy dies. Gives inaugural speech at Air Force 1 at Love Field.
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Congressional resolution letting president Johnson escalate the Vietnam war.
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Led by anti-war students and senator Robert R. Kennedy and senator Eugene McCarthy
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Surprise by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese across all of South Vietnam.
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President Nixon's policy to train South Vietnamese soldiers to end the fighting
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Surprise attack to destroy the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bases
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Frightened national guard soldiers kill four student bystanders
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Widespread skepticism about becoming involved in foreign entanglements that might become another Vietnam.
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Agreement between North Vietnam and the United States to end Vietnam.
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North Vietnam captures Saigon, North and South Vietnam were reunited
