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In march the Japanese declare French rule at and end in Vietnam and Emperor Bao Dai proclaims “independence” in March.
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The United States pledges $15 million worth of military aid to France to help them fight in Vietnam.
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On November 22, French troops return to Vietnam, transported in U.S. merchant ships, and sporadically clash with Communist and Nationalist forces.
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• On June 25, 1950 the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s
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Throughout the summer of 1950, the U.S. and the other involved United Nations' states scrambled to contain North Korea's fast-moving army
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Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and by extension its politica economic system.
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the middle of 1951, the front lines had stabilized near where the war started twelve months earlier.
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Early in the new year, the Chinese army was in turn contained and forced to retreat
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Finally, on 27 July 1953, with a new regime in the USSR and the blunting of a final Communist offensive, negotiations concluded and fighting ended.
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However, the Cold War, considerably warmed up by the Korean experience, would would maintain its costly existence for nearly four more decades.
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Space exploration served as another dramatic arena for Cold War competition. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik
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1958, the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer I, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.
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J. F. K. sends 400 American combat troops to South Vietnam as advisors.
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These tensions would continue throughout the space race, exacerbated by such events as the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and the outbreak of war in Southeast Asia.
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South Vietnamese troops experience a number of setbacks on the battlefield beginning with the battle of Ap Bac, where ARVN forces, accompanied by U.S. advisers, are defeated in very early January.
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appollo 11 landed on moon 1969
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More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.
