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The Viet Minh was a Communist organization that was formed by Ho Chi Minh
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United States government had backed an independent Vietnam in 1945 even though it was led by communist- trained Ho Chi Minh
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The French used priorities of the Cold War to secure U.S. assistance in retaking control of their former colony in Southeast Asia
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The Domino Theory was the idea that if one country fell to communism, the countries surrounding that country, the countries surrounding those countries, and so on would all eventually fall to communism.
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After months of siege, the French surrendered at their Fort to the Viet Minh
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The Geneva Accords ended the First Indochina War
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-U.S. and Soviet Union Government agreed missiles would be removed in exchange for U.S. promise not to invade Cuba -Secret Provision of deal had Kennedy promise to remove U.S. nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union neighbor of Turkey -U.S. went to DEFCON-2 for readiness of nuclear war
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Two Confrontations involving the United States and North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin
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3,500 Marines came ashore as the first United States troops in Vietnam
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Series of attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army.
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A “search and destroy” mission to find the 48th Viet Cong Battalion that they thought was in the area.
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Secret bombings of Cambodian communist bases
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Policy that was intended to end United States involvement in the Vietnam War
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The United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong, and North Vietnam signed “An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” in Paris.
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