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Le Loi, the military leader of Vietnam led the Vietnamese in defeating the Chinese with guerilla warfare. The Chinese had been trying to take over Vietnam for thousands of years and this was the last defeat that caused them to stop.
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This was second time Vietnam had lost its independence and this time caused the creation of French Indochina which became one of their major colonial possessions.
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The Japanese tried to take Indochina away from France which had taken it away from the Vietnamese. Indochina had the chance of having a new 'owner'.
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France had already claimed Vietnam and was trying to get it back. Vietnam ould lose its independence again.
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We vowed to go against communism in East Asia and that happenend a lot. This caused us to get into the Vietnam War.
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France Surrendered to Vietnam b/c it had finally defeated France and stopped the French from taking over their country AGAIN.
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A conference in Switzerland to finally calmly and nonviolently settle what is to happen with Indochina intsead of battles between France and Vietnam.
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France regained Vietnam AGAIN and planned another meeting to decide what to do with it but Ngo Dinh Diem, a strong anticommunist French government official, didn't call the election. This angered the people and caused revolutions.
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The part of Vietnam against communism started getting help.
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They publicy lit themselves on fire in protest of Diem's rule and opposement to communism. They were also arrested and this caused even more riots and revolutions.
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The US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge tried o talk to Diem about what President Kennedy wanted but Diem didn't want to. This caused the US to encourage revolts against Diem and the revolts caused Diem's death.
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This got the US even deeper in the destined to lose war.
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The President wanted more people in Vietnam fighting.
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This made African Americans very mad because they weren't even allowed to be with white people at home but they still had to fight for their country equally and die.
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This caused more men to have to go to the war and die.
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South Vietnam attacked the US army while they were sleeping pretty much everywhere. The anticommunist side lost many people from it but called it a victory because they still held off the Vietcong.
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It's Nixon's plan of pulling out US troops to let just the Vietnamese fight each other so US troops get out and the US can make a peace aggreement with North Vietnam. The US also bombed Cambodia to cut off North Vietnam's supply lines.
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This made the US question President Nixon's power to continue in the war and want to get out of the war.
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Secret government papers were published by the NYT that made people want to get out of the war even more. The papers showed how the US was making the war sound like it's going one way when it's going the other way.
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Nixon thought it would stop the country but they just ended up going deeper into South Vietnam.
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It stopped the fighting and calmly established 'rules'.
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This resumed the fighting.
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The fighting and war finally and completely ended.