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Temporarily separated Vietnam along the 17th parallel. Free elections were supposed to be held in 1956 to reunite Vietnam.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted broad military powers to the president without declaring war.
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US military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968.
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Vietcong troops attacked major metropolitan centers, US embassy, and an American base in South Vietnam on the Buddhist holiday of Tet.
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American soldiers opened fire on women, children, and innocent peasants in My Lai. 300-500 Vietnamese died in this massacre.
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In 1968 Richard Nixon won the presidential election. He created a plan called Vietnamization to withdraw troops from Vietnam.
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4 students at Kent State University were killed during a protest of the Vietnam War.
