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U.S begins bombing around Haaphong and Hanoi, M. Vietnam. This is concidered a major escalation of air war.
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The United States pledges $15 million worth of military aid to France to help them fight in Vietnam.
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The U.S. establishes a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in Saigon to aid the French Army. The Military Assistance Advisory Group/Indochina is formed.
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Viet Cong guerrillas armed with small arms and home made bombs attack the U.S. 7th Infantry Advisory Detachment at Bien Hoa.
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CINCPAC argues against using U.S. Special Forces teams to train the Vietnamese civil guard.
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U.S aircraft carrier "Core" arrives in Saigon with 33 helicopters and 400 air and ground crewman assigned to operate them for S. vietnam.
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All U.S military personnel, including Special Forces, are withdrawn from Laos, in accordance with the Geneva neutrality agreement.
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S. Vietnamese president Diem and his brother are killed outside of Saigon. One coup follows another and weakens the war effort.
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The U.S. destroyer Maddox, an electronic spy ship, is 123 miles south with orders to electronically simulate an air attack to draw North Vietnamese boats away from the commandos.
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North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters (the Gulf of Tonkin Incident).
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Fall- U.S turns down an offer of secrect peace talks with north vietnam.
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U.S. Air Force launches Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The air strikes are designed to convince the North Vietnamese to cease their support of the insurgency in the South
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
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The U.S. offers North Vietnam economic aid in exchange for peace, but the offer is summarily rejected.
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US approaches North Vietnam with economic aid in exchange for peace. North Vietnam reject the offer. President Johnson increases US's combat to more that 60 000 troops in Vietnam
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the North Vietnamese surprised both the U.S. forces and the South Vietnamese by orchestrating a coordinated assault with the Viet Cong to attack about a hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns.
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U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the town of Mai Lai.
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Nixon announces the withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam.
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President Nixon announces that U.S. troops will attack enemy locations in Cambodia.
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The last U.S. troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
