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In 1956, free elections were cancelled by the U.S. in fear of Ho Chi Minh, a communist, would win. The Vietnam government was corrupt under President Diem.
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Most people that were drafted were poor or middle working class. In 1964, people started burning their draft cards.
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The U.S. said the North Vietnamese fire on two U.S. Navy destroyers. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Military action.
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College Students occupied buildings across college campuses, roads were blocked, buildings were burned.The number of "Doves" or people opposing the war increased.
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It was a Buddhist holiday, when 8,000 Vietcong troops attacked every metropolitan center in South Vietnam.
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The U.S. would slowly withdraw troops because south Vietnamese people can defend better without the U.S. help. This did not help resolve the big problem and Protesters were still mad.
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Two years after the U.S. pulls out of Vietnam, the North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam. The North take control of the whole country.
