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The Battle Of Dien Bien Phu
The Vietnamese defeats the French -
Period: to
vietnam war
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US gets involved in Vietnam
The US sends military forces to Vietnam -
South Vietnam Attacks Gulf of Tonkin
South Vietnamese troops attck two North Vietnamese islands in the gulf of Tonkin -
Peace in trade for economic aid
US offer economic aid in trade for peace but North Vietnam, but this offer was shortly rejected. -
The first major war
2,500 Vietcong troops attack Song Be, a South Vietnamese capital -
My Lai Massacre
US soldiers kill about two hundred My Lai civilians -
Nixon takes office
Richard M. Nixon becomes the new president of the US -
Talk of peace resume
Vietnam and the United States talk of peace resume in paris, but breakdown about a year later -
Cease Fire
All parties of the Vietnam war sign a cease fire agreemment -
The end of the war
THe war was about 15 years long with nearly one million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died. Also, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killied during this war.
