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The French surrender to the Viet Minh. The Geneva Conference on the status of Indochina begins
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Ho Chi Minh orders seeping "land reforms" in North Vietnam; thousands of people are imprisoned, tortured, or executed.
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Two military advisors are killed by Viet Minh guerilla soldiers. They are the first Americans to be killed in the Vietnam war
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The US announes that it will increase the number of military advisors in South Vietnam from 327 to 685 men
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This marks the beginning of the Vietnam war for many Americans