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Viet Minh beat French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 the colony was granted independence.
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In 1955 the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became president of a new South Vietnamese republic.
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Some signers of the Geneva hoped that elections to unify the two republics could be scheduled to take place but elections were never held.
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when the nort invades south vietnam and try to make it commiust and make it one country
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On February 1, 1968, a Viet Cong officer was killed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.
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President Lyndon Johnson began his re-election campaign.
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Lt. William Calley, a platoon Leader in Vietnam had led a massecur of Vietnamese civilivins
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Nixon ordered a military into Cambodia in order to destroy NLF bordering on South Vietnam
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Backed by American air and heclopters South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos
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1972 election was once again a major issue in the United States
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The US bombed of North Vietnam
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after long years of fighting the north invaded south vietnam and took ove rand made it a commuist country
