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The Japanese Surrender and the Vietnamese saw a chance for freedom.
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President Truman ends segregation in the military.
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Korean War Begins
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Eisenhower starts U.S. military aid to South Vietnam.
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Vietnam divided into North and South Vietnam.
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The supreme court shut down segregation in school during Brown v. Board of Education.
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South Vietnamese police shoot fire into a crowd of monks against Diem.
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South Vietnam became very corrupt.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a parade in Dallas, TX. Social
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Riots began throughout urban locations due to discontentment.
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Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Lyndon B. Johnson wins presidency bt a landslide.
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Vietcong attacked on American base at Plekiu in South Vietnam.
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Vietcong caused a major lost in the war.
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Nixon promised law and order to the United States during his presidential campaigns.
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Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on the balcony of a motel in Tennessee.
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The United States soldiers began to leave the war.
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Nixon announced trip to mainland China to improve relationships.
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North Vietnam ends war by killing all the South Vietnam Soldiers in the Central Highlands.
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North and South Vietnam Unite as a Communist nation.
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