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Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War.
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he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
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Geneva Accords, collection of documents relating to Indochina and issuing from the Geneva Conference of April 26–July 21, 1954,The 10 documents—none of which were treaties binding the participants—consisted of 3 military agreements, 6 unilateral declarations.
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At a conference in Geneva, world powers agree to a divided Vietnam.
Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, control the North. The United States eventually supports an anticommunist government led by Ngo Dinh Diem in the South.
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President Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army.
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In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.
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Over the course of four hours, American soldiers kill more than 500 unarmed civilians in and around the hamlet of My Lai.
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Nixon is elected president, promising to end the war in Vietnam.
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Four days after Nixon announced the expansion of the war into Cambodia, four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during a protest.
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The South Vietnamese launch operation Lam Son 719 against North Vietnamese forces in Laos, which ends in their hasty retreat and defeat.
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Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam.
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A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon on April 30/1975
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The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.
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Opening of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall.
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Under President Bill Clinton, the U.S. normalizes relations with Vietnam.
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