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