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Eisenhower explains it as if Vietnam looses to communism these are the consequences.Neighbor countries in the Southeast Asia will eventually fall to communism as well. Eisenhower's explanation was named the "Domino Theory" it was a form of strategy to contain the spread of communism around the world.
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French forces took over the Dien Bien Phu Valley, Vo Nguyen Glop placed heavy weapons in caves surrounding the french camp and eventually getting rid of the french and overran the base. Forcing the french to end with the Geneva Accords of 1954 signing.
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Conference in Geneva,Switzerland to try to solve the fight between the French and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and other countries,part of the agreements they signed was that the French had to take away their troops from north of Vietnam and to be divided into the 17th parallel.
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Viet Cong slowly took over through South Vietnam making terrorism a main strategy to attack everything that gets on the way such as government, villages etc. The communist government of the North Vietnam supported the Viet Cong.
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Gave president Lyndon Johnson permission to take all measures that is necessary to protect from any armed attack and to prevent any aggressions,it was passed after two U.S boats were taken down by two naval destroyers on the coast of Vietnam.
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One of the reasons of the American's involvement was the fear of communism spreading around the world so that had to be stopped, U.S had to step in into the war.
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The monthly draft had increased from 17,000 to 35,000 was one of the highest number of troops.
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Company of American soldiers killed violently a lot of innocent woman,children and a lot of elderly that were not armed. Little girls and women were raped before killed.
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Nixon wins the presidential election one of the closest election of the U.S history ,Nixon won against Hubert Humphrey.
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Woodstock Festival was a festival where a lot of people attended almost a half a million people came and the festival was free of charge. A lot of artist were there to perform such as Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, and Joe Cocker, etc. Helicopters were being use to deliver food and aid.
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Nixon introduced Vietnamization, this was so that South Vietnam would take more responsibility for fighting the war.
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Nixon announced that the U.S military troops and the South Vietnam soldiers were going to invade Cambodia because that was where the Viet Cong had their base camp.
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College students protested against the bombing of Cambodia by the U.S military.28 guardsman fired against the students resulting to 4 killing and 9 people wounded who later suffered from permanent paralysis.
