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Diem realized that if the elections were held, Ho Chi Minh would probably win, thereby reuniting Vietnam under the Communist banner.
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Students For a Democratic Society flourished in the mid to late 1960s. Known for its activism against the Vietnam War.
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South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States. This leads to the arrival of U.S support troops and and formation of the U.S Military Assisstance Comand.
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Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Authorized Johnson any measures necesary to retaliate and and promote international peace and security in southeast asia.
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The mass killing of between 347 and and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam. This was commited by the U.S Army soldiers. Women were gang raped and there bodies were horribly mutated.
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Massacre at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Police fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing 4 and wounding 9.
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People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam capture Saigon. This event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a socialist republic.
