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While in the Gulf of Tonkin the U.S. ship the USS Maddox was suposedly fired on by the Vietnamese patrol boat. Two days later the USS Maddox fired on the North Vietnamese.
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Congresss passed this to allow the president to do what he felt was best in Southeast Aisa. The president had the power to create peace an help Southeast Asian nations.
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The U.S. military started to drop all sorts of bombs on vietnam rappadly. The bombs were explosave, napalm, and agient orange.
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on the Buddhist holiday of Tet lots of Vietcong emerged friom hideouts and tunnels and fired on their opposing troops. It was on of the largest attacks of the vietnam war.
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American soldiers opned fire on women in childern in the town of My Lai. Many women and childer were killed and women were raped.
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Students and anti-war supporters were protesting the war. The National Guard were called in when it started to get bad. In the end four people were killed and nine people were injured
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The day when the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was captured by North Vietnam.
