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Founded the Indochinese communist party to overthrow the French
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Ho Chi Minh returns home from 30 years in exile
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The Geneva conference involved dividing Vietnam in half on the 17th parallel President Eisenhower Geneva Conference
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US sends military support to help france
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10,000 french soldiers are defeated at Dien Bien Phu, and are forced to surrender and taken prisoner.
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Tonkin Resolution Signed to authorize military action in southeast asia after two us military ships had been attacked.
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Johnson expanded American involvement by shifting his policy to a sustaining bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
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US troops arrive in Vietnam to help the south vietnamese overcome the north.
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Protesters march to the pentagon
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Vietcong and North Vietnamese launch a surprise attack
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American platoon masscares over 200 unarmed south vietnamese civilians
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Nixon puts the vietnamization policy in effect which involved reducing american presence in Vietnam by encouraging south vietnamese to take on the responsibility of fighting the war themselves.
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American troops invade Cambodia
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U.S. Soldiers fire at student protesters and kill 4 and wound 7
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The 26th amendment allowed those ages 18-21 to legally vote, especially during the Vietnam war
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Classified info about president johnson and his policies appear in the newspapers in New York, causing conflict.
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President Johnson is forced to withdraw troops from Vietnam, after taking heavy death tolls
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The war powers act required the president to inform congress of any commitment of troops
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The south vietnamese are forced to surrender after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
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The vietnam war tempered foreign involvement in Angola's civil war as neither the soviet union or the u.s. wanted to be involved in another war.
