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Ho Chi Minh helps found the Indochinese Communist Party.
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Japan invades Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh establishes the Viet Minh nationalist group.
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Ho Chi Minh declares an independent Vietnam, called Democratic Repulic of Vietnam
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Viet Minh receive weapons and military advisors from Chana
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The United States gives $15 million worth of military aid to France to help them fight the communist parties in Vietnam.
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French lose a very important battle and Dien Bien Phu that turned the tide of the war.
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The Geneva Accords create a cease-fire and withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam. Provide temporary boundary of North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
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South Vietnam declares itself the Republic of Vietnam, and elect Ngo Dinh Diem as president.
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Ngo Dinh Diem is executed during a coup.
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The NLF, or Viet Cong, is established in South Vietnam.
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North Vietnam attacks two US destroyers sitting in international waters.
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US passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing.
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First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
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North Vietnamese join forces with the Viet Cong to attack one hundred South Vietnamese cities on the Vietnamese New Year.
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President Nixon orders the first US troop withdrawal from Vietnam.
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Communist leader Ho Chi Minh dies at age 79.
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Portions of the Pentagon Papers are published in The New York Times.
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed that provide a cease-fire.
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Last of the US troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
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North Vietnam launches a massive series of attacks on South Vietnam.
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South Vietnam surrenders to the communist North.
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Vietnam is unified as a communist country, the Socialst Republic of Vietnam.
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. is dedicated.