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Took control of Vietnam in the late 1800s
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The early 1900s, nationalist movements emerged in Vietnam, demanding more self-governance and less French influence.
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the 1945, Ho Chi Minh’s forces took the capital of Hanoi and declared Vietnam to be an independent county.
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The Geneva Accords of 1954 declared a cease-fire and divided Vietnam officially into North Vietnam
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In 1962, U.S. president John F. Kennedy sent American “military advisors” to Vietnam to help train the South Vietnamese army, the ARVN, but quickly realized that the Diem regime was unsalvageable.
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in the 1963, the United States backed a coup that overthrew Diem and installed a new leader
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After North Vietnamese forces allegedly attacked U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, however, Johnson was given carte blanche in the form of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and began to send U.S. troops to Vietnam.
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The bombing campaigns such as 1965’s Operation Rolling Thunder ensued, and the conflict escalated
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Johnson’s “Americanization” of the war led to a presence of nearly 400,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by the end of 1966.
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resulting in police brutality outside the Democratic National Convention in 1968
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The 1968, the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong launched a massive campaign called the Tet Offensive, attacking nearly thirty U.S. targets and dozens of other cities in South Vietnam at once
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The 1968 My Lai Massacre in which frustrated U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in a small village.
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in the 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen fired on a crowd
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This cease-fire was finally signed in January 1973, and the last U.S. military personnel left Vietnam
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This cease-fire was finally signed in January 1973, and the last U.S. military personnel left Vietnam in March 1973.
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The the munth of August 1974, North Vietnamese forces stepped up their attacks on the South and finally launched an allout offensive in the spring of 1975.
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On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese
