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Brought an end to the first Indochina War. Conference producing a set of documents.
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Signaled the end of French colonial influence. Cleared way for the division of Vietnam.
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Was a period of political and religions tension. Buddhists protested against the ban on the Buddhist flag.
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President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam, but also lead to political chaos in the nation.
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Vice President Lyndon Johnson, was only three cars behind President Kennedy. Became the 36th President of the United States.
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Known as the USS Maddox incident. Involved what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Also known as the South East Asia resolution. Congress passed on August 7th.
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Won 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest won by a candidate since James Monroe's re-election in 1820. It was the most lopsided US presidential election in terms of popular votes.
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Two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Speeches could go on for 12 hours.
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A series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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Most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese.
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He said it would take away his focus on the war, and to spend more time with his family.
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The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee.
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Icon of the hippie culture. Attracted thousands of people.
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A policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
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Representative Alexander Pirnie drawing the first number. The Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men.
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Resulted in a firestorm of protests, scattered incidents of violence.
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The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard
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A large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage. Reasonably safe.
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Intended to establish peace in Vietnam. Provided the end to fighting and the withdrawal with American forces.
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Marked the end of the struggle to contain communism in Southeast Asia.
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Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender.
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