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A vietnamese man Ho Chi Minh started organzing arnies against their french rulers. On this day war began between the French and viet Minh.
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The French suffer a decisive defeat.
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The Geneva Accords created a cease-fire for peaceful withdraw of the French.
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President Harry S. Truman decided to help France because, at the time the U.S was in the Cold war with communist countries, and Ho Chi Minh being a communist, worried truman.
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Turning point of the war. North Vietnamise attack two U>S destroyers sitting in international waters.
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Sustained u.S aerial bombing campagn of North Vietnam begins.
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U.S soldiers kill hundreds of vietnamese civilians in the Vietnamese town of Mai Lai.
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Are signed and provide a cease-fire with the U.S.
