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The United States dropped Agent Orange which is a deadly gas, to prevent the use of some of the trails and roads in Viet Cong.
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A monk set himself on fire to protest against the Diem goverment policies. The monkn was a Quang Duc.
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Ngo Dinh Diem who was the President of South Vietnam, was overthrown. He is overthrown by a military coup. After he was overthrown he was killed.
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The Tonkin Gulf resolution was approved by the US senate. This means that the president was "to take all necessary measures" to make sure the US was protected and to "prevent any furthur aggresions"
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This is the first day that "Operation Rolling Thunder" starts. It started with 100 American Figther-Bombers attacked different targets in Northern Vietnam. It was only suposed to go on for eight weeks but instead carried on for three years.
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This was the first big US offensice action of the Vietnam War. It was taken by "3,000 tropps of the 173rd aurborne Division and 800 Australian Troops"
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The First Medal of Honor was awarded to "The US corps Lierenant Frank Reasoner of Kellog, Idaho. " He was the first Marine in Vietnam to win the Medal of Honor. He died while in duty.
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At the University of Michigan the first Anit-Vietnam sit it was held. Many more follows this one.
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The secret bomb was dropped on Cambodia by the United States
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On the date President Nixon declares that the US will is extending to Cambodia. His reason was this "...not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam and winning the just peace we desire."
