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France leaves Indochina
France struggled to keep control of its colonies in Indochina so they decided to leave despite financial assistance from the U.S. -
Geneva Accord Divides Vietnam at 17th Parallel
The French agreed to withdraw from North Vietnam, and Vietnam would be divided temporally at the 17th parallel pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country. -
U.S. sends military advisors to South Vietnam
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President Lyndon Johnson takes over
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Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resoulution
Made President Johnson able to take any measure needed to create peace in south west Asia. -
U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam
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The Tet Offensive
North Vietnamese and Vietcong worked together to attack parts of South Vietnam. -
President Richard Nixon elected
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Nixon invades Cambodia
A series of military operations by the U.S. and South Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. -
Vietnamization
Policy brought about by Nixon to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by arming and training South Vietnamese forces and assign them combat rolls which reduced the need for U.S. troops. -
National Guard Troops Kill Student Protesters at Kent State.
Students were protesting the bombings of Cambodia of the United States, and 4 people were shot and killed divided by the Vietnam War. -
Paris Peace Accords
A peace treaty that ended the war and restored peace in Vietnam. -
Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam
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Fall of Saigon
The US territory of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese and renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their revolutionary leader who died a few years earlier.
