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The Geneva Accords mark the seperation between North and South Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
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Time Period of The Vietnam War
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Soliders and Weapons begin to slowly cross the border
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National Liberation Front for South Vietnam ( Vietcong) organize to fight Northern Vietnam
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Buddhist monks start setting themselves on fire in public places tp protest
against the Diem government policy of removing Buddhists from key government
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Diem, first president of South Vietnam, lost backing of US support because of the religious protest and he and his brother were both assassinated
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A small battle between the US Maddox and 3 Northern Vietnamese Navy Torpedo Boats, first sign of violence between Northern Vietnamese and United States
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolve was a joint resolution passed by United States Congress that allowed L yndon B. Johnson the ability to declare Military force without a declaration of war by Congress
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Protest begin to arise on college campuses starting in the 1965 against the war in Vietnam
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Operation Rolling Thunder is the tactic the Americans used to fight Northern Vietnamese by running bomb raids for 3 years throughout North Vietnam
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In October draft increased from 3,000 a month to 30,000 a month
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The US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives
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President Nixon promises to withdraw troops from Vietnam
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Northern Vietnamese (People's Army of Vietnam) hoist collective suprise military strikes throughout South Vietnam, in a time where no attacks were suppose to take place. Americans begin to realize that the victory is slim and question the motives for continuing to fight
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MInh died September 2 1969, following his death Nixon began to decrease ground units in Vietnam due to the growing American disregard for the war
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President Nixon Extends the Vietnam War to Cambodia where he starts a secret bombing campaign that he keeps secret from public
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4 students killed and 9 wounded in this Kent State Masscre while protesting the involvement in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, sadly most of the people wounded were simply walking through or onlookers
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While under the ceasefire agreeement in Paris the United States takes the oppurtunity to completely withdraw from the war
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North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders.
