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They were demanding more self-governance and less French influence
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They landed at Cam Ranh Bay
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In 1955 the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became president of a new South Vietnamese republic.
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by 1968 500,000 American troops were stationed there
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a bombing raid at Kang Chi became the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war
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as the first major American ground battle of the war when 5,500 US Marines destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province
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the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong launched a massive campaign called the Tet Offensive attacking nearly thirty U.S. targets
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a suspected Viet Cong officer was summarily executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief
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the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, who reunited the country under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War
