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The Geneva Accords stated that Vietnam was to become an independent nation. During the two-year interval until the elections, the country would be split into two parts; the Communist North and the American-backed South.
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A movement by students at Berkely to improve free speech on college campuses.
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Gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. He basically had a "blank check" for the war.
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A month of Surprise attacks done by the Vietcong in South Vietnam. During this offensive, Vietcong would launch massive ambushes in severall South vietnamese cities.
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American Soldiers kill almost 500 unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. Victims were old men, women, and children. Bodies were found raped and mutilated. Only Second Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted.
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Nixon becomes President of the United States.
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Nixon administartion ces it's plan to the end the war in Vietnam by training South Vietnamize soldiers to fight the war themselves.
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After days of rioting and the burning of an ROTC building at Kent State in Ohio, the National Guard is called in to control the situation. This results in the shooting of 4 stutdents.
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7,000 pages of classified documents that proved that as President Johnson promised to end the war in Vietnam, he had been increasing the amount of soldiers and arms in Vietnam.
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Nixon finally withdraws Americans from their role in the Vietnam war.
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Saigon, the South Vietnamese capitol, falls to the communist North. The final american embassadors evactuate the county and Vietnam is united as one communist country.
