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The theory states that if one country falls under communism those countries around will also fall to communism which leads to the tactic of “containment.”
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Students for a democratic society. Widely know for the movements against the Vietnam war
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US destroyers radioed that they have been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. As a result president Johnson and congress agreed to send more us forces over to north Vietnam
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Aerial bombing campaign led by the United States. It’s purpose was to demoralize the North Vietnamese people
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President Johnson declares the number of troops in Vietnam is to increase to 50,000. Many of whom are young boy no older than 19 years old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/newsid_2754000/2754033.stm
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The Tet Offensive. A coordinated north vietnamease attack during the lunar new year
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Mass murder of Vietnamese civilians by us troops
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In Chicago thousands of Vietnam protesters battle against police at the democratic national Convention
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Nixon defeats Hubert H.Humphrey
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Members of the counterculture movement. A festival where hippies can be hippies and do hippy things
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Students protest the bombings of Cambodia. The police retaliated and shot and killed four Kent state students
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Policy that allowed the us to equip and help train south Vietnamese forces
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Military operation led by us to invade Cambodia. The reason was to cut off north Vietnamese supplies routes
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The North vietnamese took over saigon with no resistance and was quickly changed to Ho Chi Minh city.
