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The Vietminh fired on the USS Maddox while it was over the 17th Parallel.
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This granted military powers to President Johnson without declaring war.
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80,000 Vietcong troops attacked nearly every metropolitan area in South Vietnam. The Danang and Saigon American bases were attacked as well.
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American soldiers pillaged the village of My Lai. They destroyed houses and killed innocent people.
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Richard Nixon, Republican nominee, beat out Hubert Humphrey, Democratic nominee, in the 1968 election.
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At Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, four students were killed by the National Guard while protesting Nixon's war policies.
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Grants citizens who are eighteen years or older to vote. It sprung from the outrage students had because of being able to be drafted but not vote or drink
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