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A North Vietnamese patrol boat fired on the U.S.S. Maddox. After the incident the president was granted the ability to send in troops withoput declaring war.
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50,000 U.S. troops were sent in to fight the Vietcong. This was the first sustained American assault on the North Vietnamese.
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Over 80,000 Vietcong troops surprise attacked nearly every major metropolitan center in South Vietnam. The U.S. troops morale decreased greatly.
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American Soldiers killed 300-500 villagers including women and children.
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President Nixon promised that troops wopuld gradually be pulled from Southeast Asia .
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Students were protesting violently that Nixon was expanding the war. Soldiers in the National Guard shot and killed four students while wounding others.
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North Vietnamese forces attacked the South Vietnam capital of Saigon. They took Saigon and the war ended.
