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truman was president during the start of vietnam.
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asked for US assistance when refused he returned to communism
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eisenhower was president.
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US stopped shipping supplies to the french in Vietnam because they pulled out of war.
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kennedy sent avisors to vietnam called green berets
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president kennedy increased the # of US combat advisors.
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gulf of tonkin resolution was a turning point in the war
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first US troops in vietnam
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my lai massacre was on march 16th 1968 and 300 civilians were killed
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troops in vietnam picked in this year
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kent state protest where government forces shot down many of the inncoent protesters which were young students at the college.
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pentagon papers was proof that the we were losing the war a which the government was hiding from the public. this was the turning point,
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watergate crippled nixon causing the end of us troop support in the south.
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military campigne launch by the peoples army of vietnam against the republic of vietnam.
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last troops withdrawn under paris peace accords also pows reaturned
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