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JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. The nation was shocked by this event, and mourned for many days.
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North Vietnamese reportedly firedtorpedos at the USS Maddox. The North Vietnamese denied this and it was later believed by the U.S. that there had not been any torpedods fired.
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80,000 Vietcong soldiers attacked U.S. and Sout Vietnamese military bases on the Buddhist holiday Tet. The U.S. and South Vietnamese held off the attackers, but sustained heavy casualties.
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The U.S. Second Air Division conducted an aerial bombardment of Northern Vietnam military bases from March 2nd, 1965 to November 2nd, 1968. It caused $370 million worth of physical destruction.
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Nixon was a Republican that promised to end the war in Vietnam. He resigned before the end of the war because of revelations in the Watergate scandal.
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College students at Kent State University protested the Vietnam War. The national gurad came in to control the situation. They fired into the crowd, killing 4 and wounding several others.
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After almost 20 years of conflict, the last U.S. soldier left Vietnam. When everyone made it home, the public finally calmed down.
