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Eisenhower suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communist would make a "domino" effect. U.S. Police makers thought France was failing to re-establish colonial control in Indochina.
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Two Us destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin was fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response LBJ requested for an increase in the US military presence.
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A group of American soldiers brutally murdered most of the people in the village of My Lai. They killed unarmed woman and children.
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It was the 46th presidential election. Nixon won to the democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey.
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Nixon announced that US military was going to invade Cambodia along with South Vietnamese peoples army.
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Saigon, South Vietnamese capital fell to North Vietnam. It had become Ho Chi Minh City.
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It took place at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. During a mass protest about the bombing in Cambodia by US forces, four unarmed college students, were shot and killed by guardsmen.
