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Gulf of Tonking Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. The rebel forces had established control over nearly half of South Vietnam, and Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, was criticizing the Johnson administration for not pursuing the war more aggressively. -
My Lai massacre
American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of south vietnamese hamlet in My Lai. The U.S. doesn't know the exact number of deaths, but they believe the soldiers killed about 500 people including woman, children and elderly. -
Assaination on MLK
The U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination led to a rage of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill -
Nixon Wins the Election
February 1968, he had recovered his political standing in the Republican Party by announcing his candidacy for president, he was a Republican and during his election he promised to end the war. Nixon won the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. -
Invasion of Cambodia
The operation would provide six to eight months of time for training South Vietnamese forces and this would shorten the war for Americans.The announcement that U.S. and South Vietnamese troops had invaded Cambodia resulted in a firestorm of protests and gave the antiwar movement a new rallying point. -
Kent State Massacre
Many riots started because President Nixon announced publically that he is launching 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of Vietnam War. At Kent State college in Ohio, the students were setting fire to ROTC buildings, which made the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsman to the campus. -
Fall of Saigon
The North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon, quickly afterwards Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh after their revolutionary leader. The leader Ho CHi Minh died several years earlier and when he was alive he said "I declare the Saigon government is completely dissolved at all levels."
