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Le Loi's rebels worked as peasants by day and took up arms to attack the Chinese by night. Le Loi became emperor of the new independent Vietnam.
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Vietnam lost its independence and were forced to give France total control of the country.
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Japanese army occupied all of Indochina and threatened the rest of Southeast Asia.
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French and the Vietnamese were once again locked in battle. US choses to ignore Vietnam, then threw support to France.
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United States was caught back against the Communist North Korea's invansion on South Korea.
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Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh forces decisively defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold besieged by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days
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After the battle, a conference took place in Indochina conflicting in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Diem, an anitcommunist, had no chance of winning nationwide election. He then put a date set in July, then refusing election call in the south.
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Military assistance began flowing from the north to the Vietminh who had stayed un the south.
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Americans killed or wounded climbed from 14 in 1961 to nearly 500 in 1963.
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Henry Cabot Lodge met with Diem, he then later recalled that Diem refused to any topics that Kennedy wanted a response to.
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Plotters stuck, killing both Diem and his brother. His assassination upset US advisers, who prepared a flight for Diem our of the country.
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Selective Service notified 13,700 draftees.
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The student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its first anti-Vietnam War protest rally in Washington, DC
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Viet Cong forces launch the largest and best coordinated offensive of the war, drivingg into the center of South Vietnam's seven largest cities and attacking 30 provincial capitals from the Delta to the DMZ.
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Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho met secretly in Paris. Began negoations imed at finding a way to end the war, for three years the men engaged in peace negotiations.
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National Guard troops that had been sent to control demonstrators shot randomly into a large group of students.
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Members of Congress were also upset by the Cambodian invasion. In response, Congress repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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An incident boosted the antiwar movement. The New York Times began publishing a collection of secret government documents relating to the war.
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The North Vietnamese cross the demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel to attack South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive.
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The United States withdraw its remaining forces from South Vietnam. The peace settlement also included a prisoner-exchange agreement.
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Negotiators in Paris announced a cease-fire. The plan differed little from the one agreed to in October, but minor changes allowed each side to claim a victory
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South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally