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Kennedy was assassinated by being shot in his car in Dallas Texas.
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Vice President was sworn in the same day as Kennedy's assassination.
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the United States more directly into the Vietnam War. It involved two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
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In Washington D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict.
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam thought to be Vietcong.
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Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore "law and order", and won.
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The Paris Peace Accords was an agreement between the government of North Vietnam, government of South Vietnam, and the United States to bring an end to the Vietnam War
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South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam.
