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British troops occupied South Vietnam; Nationalist Chinese forces occupied North Vietnam.
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Japan surrendered to Vietnam and pulled troops out of the nation.
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War broke out between the French and the Vietminh.
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Defeat of French forces; French withdrawal of military troops from Vietnam.
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American forces occupy Vietnam.
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Vietminh began a campaign of guerilla warfare in South Vietnam and attacked American military advisors.
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America sent special forces troops into Vietnam.
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U.S. ships fired and damaged several torpedoes that were allegedly stalking it; marked the escalation of the war.
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Gave the president the power to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia without declaring war.
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America sent regular troops into Vietnam.
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U.S. policy to protect the South Vietnamese.
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NVA and Viet Cong invade the major cities of South Vietnam during the nation's Lunar New Year, Tét. Moral loss for America because the population started to doubt the government.
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U.S. troops massacred between 347-504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
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Replacement of American troops with South Vietnamese forces.
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To wipe out Vietnamese troops that we discovered.
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President Nixon ordered a squadron of 18 B-52s loaded with nuclear weapons to race the border of the Soviet airspace to convince the Soviet Union that he was capable of doing anything to end the Vietnam War.
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We invaded Laos and Cambodia; this is what provoked the Kent State protest.
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A history of the real history of what happened in Vietnam; discovered and released by Daniel Ellsburg and first brought to the attention of the public when it was published in the New York Times.
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Peace Treaty signed by all parties to end the Vietnam War. American forces ordered out of Vietnam; POWs returned to America.
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North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and mark the end of the war.
