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Paris Peace Conference/accords
They crated the League of Nations; the five peace treaties with defeated enemies, and the awarding of German and Ottoman overseas possessions to Britain and France, and the drawing of new national boundaries -
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Eisenhower
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Dien Bien Phu Battle
The Viet Minh victory brought to an end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the path for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva. -
Geneva Accords
The results would be that Vietnam would become an independent nation, which brought an end to French colonialism. The French colonies Cambodia and Laos would get their independence, and Vietnam would be temporarily divided for two years. It provided a 300 day grace period for the people that wanted to move to north or south Vietnam and the US helped the ones moving to the South. -
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Kennedy
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Johnson
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Gulf of Tonkin
Naval incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that was said to be two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy of the U.S. Johnson had to send more troops because the southeast Asian countries were threatened by communism. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It authorized President Johnson to take any measures he thought were necessary to retaliate and promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Fulbright commission
It was a series of public hearings to expand the experts knowledge of the Vietnam War. People really didn't know where the U.S stood in war matters. -
Victimization
This was a policy by the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to expand and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an increasing combat role, and reduce the number of U.S. combat troops. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was an attack by North Vietnam in the just before morning of Jan. 31, 1968. It shocked the American people into reality about the escalating conflict and led to President Johnson's decision not to run again. -
My Lai Massacre
U.S. Army officers covered up the incident for a year before it was reported in the American press. The brutality of the My Lai killings and the official cover-up further divided the United States over the Vietnam War. -
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Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
Nixon sent military troops with the south Vietnamese army was going to invade Cambodia. The were disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines and to bomb and destroy Viet Cong base camps. This made the people mad to riots and protests started to occur. -
Daniel Ellsburg
American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who was in the national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of Cambodia and Laos, raids on the coast of North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, but none of them were reported in the media. -
Christmas Bombing
Because of the Christmas bombing the final agreement had two different impacts it wither took the Vietnamese back to the negotiating table or it really did nothing to them other than kill and destroy some people. -
War Powers Act
It is federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
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Ford
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fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon brought an end to the Vietnam War, and marked the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist Rule.