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The 35th president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza
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He was sworn in as the president of the United States after the assassination of John F Kennedy.
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U.S. destroyer ships had been sunk by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin. The attack was not true, but it deepened U.S. interest in the war.
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Many Americans protested Americas involvement in the Vietnam War.
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A major offensive launched by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.
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American soldiers (Company C) brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese..
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Richard Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey and is elected president. He was a Republican.
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A peace negotiation effort started by President Johnson. Peace finally arrived when the United States, the Soviet Union, the North Vietnamese, and Vietcong signed a formal agreement
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North Vietnamese Communist forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, officially ending the war and uniting Vietnam under a single communist regime.
