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ho chi mihn declares vietnams independence .this allows him to go to war.
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The Viet Minh receive military advisors and weapons from China.This helped vietnam alot with out this ,maybe we could have won the war?
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The French suffer a decisive defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.The french did get off vietnam after awile.
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South Vietnam declares itself the Republic of Vietnam, with new and elected Ngo Dinh Diem, who became president.
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the Viet Cong, is established in South Vietnam.
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President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas.
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North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international water for reason.
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then again north vietnam attacked us we will get them back.
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China, North Vietnam's neighbor and ally, successfully tests an atomic bomb.
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A sustained U.S. aerial bombing campaign of North Vietnam begins A.K.A operation rolling thunder :p get wrecked.
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American Special Forces camp is overrun by a full Vietcong regiment. U.S. air attacks
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Heavy fighting near Con Thien kills nearly 1,300 North Vietnamese troops
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Communist forces are building up for the Tet Offensive, 200 officials are arrested in a crackdown on opponents of the Tet strategy.
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U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the town of Mai Lai
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General William Westmoreland, who had been in charge of the U.S. troops in Vietnam, is replaced by General Creighton kind sucks for that job to be taken from you.
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Two days before the U.S. presidential election, Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded.
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In Paris, peace talks between the North Vietnamese and the Americans breakdown.
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Hue, South Vietnam's third largest city, falls to the North Vietnamese Army.
