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an effort to reunite Vietnam in one gov’t, an election was suppose to happen but diem didn’t participate because he knew he wouldn’t win
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The domino theory was a Cold War policy that a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of domino.. He spent much of the speech explaining the significance of Vietnam to the United States.
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America bombs targets in North Vietnam.
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American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam
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The United States involvement in the Vietnam to aid the French in the first Indochina war
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A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam war
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U.S. soldiers massacred 347 Vietnamese civilians, mostly children, women and elderly men in the town of My Lai.
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“ President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection. Johnson’s decision was in large part a consequence of declining public support for his policies in the Vietnam War.” https://www.cfr.org/explainer-video/lessons-learned-lbj-announces-he-will-not-seek-reelection
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Nixon is elected president, promising to end the war in Vietnam.
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“ Vietnamization was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam “. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnamization
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President Nixon orders U.S. troops to invade Cambodia. It’s believed that North Vietnamese troops, were using safe havens in the neighboring country to launch attacks on the U.S.
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Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured
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Marked the end of the Vietnam war but also marked the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist Rule