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Japan takes over French Indonesia in World War II
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Ho Chi Minh establishes the Vietnam, The "League for the Independence of Vietnam"
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Japan surrenders. Ho Chi forms the Democratic Replubic Of Vietnam(DRV)
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French control cities and Vietnam control countrysides
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Vietnam take Dien and defeat French, ending first Indochina war.Gevena divide Vietnam in North and South.
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President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas.
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On this night, South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. destroyer Maddox, a electronic spy ship, South send a air attack to draw North Vietnamese boats away from the commandos.
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China, North Vietnam's neighbor and ally, successfully tests an atomic bomb.
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At 4:03 a.m., two U.S. Marines are killed in a rocket attack at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. They are the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War. At dawn, the last Marines of the force guarding the U.S. embassy lift off. Only hours later, looters ransack the embassy, and North Vietnamese tanks role into Saigon, ending the war. In 15 years, nearly a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died. Hundreds of thousands of civilians had been kil
