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Ho Chi Minh’s forces took the capital of Hanoi and declared Vietnam to become an independent country being the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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Diem took control of the South Vietnamese government , declared the Republic of Vietnam, and canceled elections that had been scheduled for 1956.
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Wthin certain parts of the Unties States, small movements took place invloving the disproval of the war especially on some college campuses.
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The North allegedly bombed U.S. navy ships off the Gulf of Tonkin.
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The United Staes Marines had become the first American combat troops to land in South Vietnam.
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Operation Starlite was the first major battle of the war. 5,500 US Marines destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province.
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The North Vienamese Army and the Viet Cong created the Tet Offensive attacking about thirty U.S. targets and South Vietnamese cities.
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Henry Kissinger and North Vietanamese representative Xuan Thuy had held secret peace negotiations to the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris. These negotiations had later failed.
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With support and backup from the United States, South Vietnam had invaded Lous, soon making Australia and New Zealand withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
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The United States heavily bombed North Vietnam somewhat relating to the peace negotiations before this.
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Accords were signed that ended involment with U.S and the war.
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Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. They then reunited the country making it communist and ending the war.
