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Geneva Accords
The U,S, France, Vietnam and other minor players gathered together to debate French involvement in Vietnam. France, because the U.S denied the French call for more involvement, decided it would withdraw troops from Vietnam and divide the country at the 17th parallel. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
After the U.S Maddox was supposedly fired apon by North Vietnamese soldiers, President Johnson was quick to order an air strike against Northern Vietnam. Later, a bill passed that allowed the President to conduct moderate military action without declaring war. -
SDS
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) attracted most doves in the U.S, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops, proving that war’s end was nowhere in sight. -
Tet Offensive
During the lunar new year holiday of Tet, 70,000 Northern Vietnamese troops invaded South Vietnam. The troops attack almost everywhere at once, while the people and U.S troops were unaware because of the holiday. -
Vietnamization
President Nixon, with the promise of ending the war in Vietnam, intruduced this war method at the begining of his presidency. He would gradually take out troops in Vietnam while training Southern Vietnamese soldiers and handing the fight to them. -
Invasion of Cambodia
Although Cambodia was technically neutral in the Vietnam War, President Nixon used his Gulf of Tonkin authority to invade them. This was because the Northern Vietminh was using Cambodian territory to tunnel into South Vietnam. -
The Pentagon Papers
When the troops in South Vietnam increased to more than 500,000, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be more widely available to the American public, sending it to the New York Times.
