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  The Battle of Diên Biên Phu was a battle that lasted just over a month, and is when the Vietminh over run him
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  A resol10ution that the United States congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Now the president can basically go to war without declaring war
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  America sends their first wave of combat troops to Vietnam. 3500 men.