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The French colonial military outpost is decisively defeated by the Viet Minh, which ends French rule in Indochina and sets the stage for the division of Vietnam -
1954 agreements that ended the First Indochina War, establishing a ceasefire in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam and temporarily dividing Vietnam into two zones at the 17th parallel -
In August, North Vietnamese patrol boats allegedly attack the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox. Congress responds by passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Lyndon B. Johnson to escalate military action. -
The first U.S. Marines land in Da Nang, shifting the American role from military advisor to direct combatant. By 1968, U.S. troop levels would exceed 500,000. -
A sustained American bombing campaign targets military and industrial sites in North Vietnam. The operation was intended to destroy North Vietnam's will to fight but proved largely ineffective. -
U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. The cover-up of the atrocity fueled anti-war sentiment when it was reported in 1969. -
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on over 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
he Ohio National Guard opens fire on unarmed student protesters, killing four, during a demonstration against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. -
General Lon Nol stages a U.S.-backed coup, overthrowing Prince Norodom Sihanouk -
A peace treaty is signed, leading to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and the release of American prisoners of war. -
North Vietnamese forces capture the South Vietnamese capital. This event marks the end of the war, the collapse of the South Vietnamese government, and the reunification of Vietnam under communist rule. -
Within days of taking the capital, the Khmer Rouge empties Phnom Penh and other cities -
After years of civil war, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army marches into the capital, Phnom Penh, and seizes power. -
he regime forces the evacuated population into grueling agricultural labor with little food or rest. -
The Khmer Rouge systematically purges those perceived as threats to the revolution, including intellectuals, professionals, ethnic minorities like the Cham and Vietnamese, and former government officials -
A former high school in Phnom Penh is converted into the infamous S-21 prison, also known as Tuol Sleng. -
Many of those who are purged or condemned are executed and buried in mass graves across the country, now known as the Killing Fields -
Following escalating border conflicts and Khmer Rouge massacres of Vietnamese civilians, Vietnam launches a full-scale invasion of Cambodia. -
The Vietnamese military captures Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government and ending the genocide -
after decades of clinging to power in remote regions, Pol Pot dies under house arrest. He is never brought to justice for his crimes -
Me and Payton went o her little brothers baseball game -
I went to my friend paytons house for a bonfire. -
My and my friends went tubing at a lake on a jet ski -
Me my dad and two friends went camping at Captin Cook Camp ground and went in the mud -
Me and my dad both caught a fish at the same time when we were fishing on the Kenai River