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The Geneva Accords
established North and South Vietnam at 17 parallel for dividing line.Agreement was that elections take place every 2 years but elections never happened. -
Ngo Diem
Ngo Dihn Diem leader of south Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh leads the North. -
U.S. soldiers
Frst U.S. soldiers killed in South Vietnam. -
Vietnam War
North Vietnamese forces began to build a supply route through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. Known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. -
Ho Chi Minh
Failing health and replaced by Le Duan as North Vietnam Communist party.
