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A leader named Ho Chi Minh, who was a communist, created the Viet MInh. Once France lost hoold of their colony, Japan took over, and the Viet Minh fought Japan until the surrenendered In WWII and the Viet Minh took over Vietnam.
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After WWII the French refused to let Vietnam out of their control. The Viet Minh and the French fought until 1954 where Vietnam was seperated into Communist North Vietnam, and Democratic South Vietnam
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The cease fire seoerated North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel and had a DMZ around it.
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The U.S sent military advisors over to South Vietnam to help overthrow the unpopular regime over there.
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The North Vietnamese launced an attack on an American ship. Then, President Lyndon Johnson began sending U.S ground troops into South Vietnam.
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It was a bombing campaign that made the conflict in Vietnam increase at a major rate. This led to 400,000 U.S troops in Indochina by then end of 1966
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5,500 U,S Marines mauled a Viet Cong stronghold in the Quang Ngai Province.
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A suspicious officer was shot and killed by a S.Vietnamese police chief. The death was filmed and made U.S citixzes really angry, they thought this was another reason they shoudnt be over there.
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The Vietminh and the Viet Cong laucned a massvive assualt, attacking nearly thirty U.S targets and tons of other South Vietnamese cities as well.
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The morale of U.S soldiers was lower than it ever ws before, so all of the frustrated U.S troops killed a lot of unarmed Vietnamese civillians.
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The Antiwar Movement started to pick up back at the states. Whicj led to the police being more harsh. Including tyhe deaths of 4 students at Kent State College.
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President Nixon illegally bombed the neutral countries of Laos and Cambodia. Once the Press got hold of that information, the people pushed Nixon to make peace with the North.
