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France imposes an colonial system over Vietnam. The French lose control.
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President Eisenhower pledges support to south Vietnam.
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Statement issued in 1964 in which U.S. destroyer ships had been sunk by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin a body of water located 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam.
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More then 536,000 american troops were in Vietnam.
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Guerilla warfare tactics were used by the Vietcong.
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Was a supply route that passed through Laos and Cambodia.
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