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Indochina
France imposes a system over Vietnam, calling it French Indochina. It includes of Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China and Cambodia. -
SEATO
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was created, there goal was to stop the spreading of communism in Southeast Asia. -
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End of the Vietnam war
More than 58,ooo American soldiers gave their lives serving their country and another 300,000 were wounded. -
SDS
Student for a Democratic Society, this group was created to campaign against racism and poverty but then switched to campaigning to end the war in Vietnam -
President Diem's death
Viet Cong, the communist guerrillas operating in South Vietnam, defeat units of the ARVN, the South Vietnamese Army. President Diem is overthrown and then killed. -
U.S joins into the war
Gulf of Tonkin incident: the US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers. US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorising military action in region. -
Draft
Most America soliders in Vietnam had been drafted into military service, and they were not as certain that preserving the government in South Vietnam was crucial to American interest. -
The Hawks/Doves
The Hawks were the ones who supported Johnson's war policy, Believing heavily in the containment of communism and the domino theory. The doves were the ones who broke with Johnson's war policy's, a diverse group of liberal politicians, pacifists, student radicals, and civil right leaders. -
Tet Offensive
A combined assault by Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army on US positions - begins. More than 500 civilians die in the US massacre at My Lai. Thousands are killed by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Hue. -
Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy was assassinated -
MLKJ
MLKJ was shot by a racist and was killed in Memphis, Tennessee -
My Lai
American forces are searching for enemy troops in an area with strong vietcong presence. -
Ho Chi Minh dies
Ho Chi Minh dies. In result President Nixon begins to reduce US ground troops in Vietnam as domestic public opposition to the war grows. -
Nixon vs Humphrey election
Nixon ended up winning with 43.6% of the popular vote and 301 electoral votes. -
The start of the end of the war
Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Le Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, start talks in Paris. -
Kent State
Throughout the country and colleges protests erupted, causing police and national guard to step in leading to deaths. -
Pentagon Papers
Classified government history of America's involvement in Vietnam, which would later on show American leaders didn't fully involve the congress and would end up even lying to them. -
Ceasefire
Ceasefire agreement in Paris, US troop pull-out completed by March. -
Invasion
North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders. -
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Cambodians
Between 1975 and 1979, upwards of 2 million Cambodians were executed or died in labor camps