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Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel
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JFK becomes president of the United States
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Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South Vietnam, is assassinated
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Three weeks after the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, JFK is assassinated
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North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on two US destroyers in Gulf of Tonkin
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The Republican nominee, Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey.
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A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War
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The mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam [https://www.britannica.com/event/My-Lai-Massacre]
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Johnson announces he will not be rerunning for president
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Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which had given the president nearly complete power in directing the conflict
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President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia
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Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest
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Air raids called "Christmas Bombing", dropped thousands of bombs on North Vietnamese targets for 11 days
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The US withdraws it's troops, and exchanges prisoners of war
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Cambodia falls under the control of Khmer Rouge, a communist group
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North Vietnamese army invades South Vietnam
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North Vietnamese captured Saigon, renamed the city Ho Chi Mihn City
