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France recognizes Vietnam as a free nation
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The Vietminh nationalists had gone to the U.S., who denied them support, so they went to the Soviet Communists instead
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If we lost control of the communism in Vietnam, then it would spread. Other countries, or dominoes, would fall, until communism reached the U.S.
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North Vietnamese Communists invade South Vietnam and murder hundreds of South Vietnamese officials
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Use of the Ho Chi Minh trail is initiated and weapons and supplies are transported throughout it.
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Narrowly won the election
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Guerillas go undercover as South Vietnamese. Friends by day, enemies by night.
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Advisors (Green Berets) sent in to oversee operations in the war.
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A pesticide that destroys the greenery of the jungle but also began to cause cancer and birth defects in those who were exposed.
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North Vietnamese bomb the U.S. Maddox, initiating combat between the two sides
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North Vietnamese soldiers surround the U.S. occupied city of Khe Sanh, and by far outnumber the U.S. soldiers. With the use of napalms, the Vietnamese are defeated.
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Tet is the Vietnamese new year. During the war, it was a time of ceasefire, but the North Vietnamese took that day to attack every major South Vietnamese city.
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A group of soldiers, led by Lieutenant Calley, attack a South Vietnamese town and torture or murder everyone there.
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U.S. soldiers attack North Vietnamese that have made camp on a large hill.
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Students protest the war and police retaliate, killing four students.
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Invasion of Cambodia to halt the flow of supplies to Vietnam.
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Daniel Ellsberg leaks papers from the Pentagon about the Vietnam War, further dicrediting the government
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More bombs dropped then than all other dropped bombs in our previous wars combined
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POWs released, and U.S. tropps retreat from Vietnam
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed, and the last of the U.S. soldiers leave Vietnam
