# data[].attributes.body
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A group of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people (women, children and old men) in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered. The U.S. Army covered up the carnage for a year before it was reported in the American press

# data[].attributes.body
The United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong, and North Vietnam formally sign An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam in Paris. The settlement included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam. In addition, the United States agreed to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and advisors ( about 23,700) and the dismantling of all U.S. bases within 60 days. In return, the North Vietnamese agreed to release all U.S. and other prisoners of war. It was agreed that the 17th Parallel would remain a provisional dividing line, with eventual reunification of the country through peaceful means, which didn't end up happening (not peacefully)

# data[].attributes.body
The Tet Offensive was a series of north vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in south vietnam. It was an attempt to stop the rebellion among the south population and to encourage the US to scale back  its involvement in the war. These attacks were covered on the news and it completely shocked the american public and that made people support the war more

# data[].attributes.body
President Johnson went to Congress and got the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed on August 7, 1964 in reaction to two Navy destroyers, Maddox and Turner Joy, being fired on in the Gulf of Tonkin, right off the coast of North Vietnam.  The destroyers reported having been fired on on two separate occasions, though they were actually only fired on on August 2, and the other time was just a blip on the radar.  LBJ didn’t tell the American public about the knowledge that the second “attack” was just a blip.  The G.T. Resolution gave Johnson the green light to send troops to Vietnam, to escalate the conflict.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

# data[].attributes.body
Search and Destroy, Seek and Destroy, or even simply S&D, refers to a military strategy that became a large component of the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward.

# data[].attributes.body
Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The U.S. program, codenamed Operation Ranch Hand, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of various herbicides over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1961 to 1971. Agent Orange, which contained the deadly chemical dioxin, was the most commonly used herbicide. It was later proven to cause serious health issues—including cancer, birth defects, rashes and severe psychological and neurological problems—among the Vietnamese people as well as among returning U.S. servicemen and their families.

# data[].attributes.body
Viet Cong. Viet Cong (VC), in full Viet Nam Cong San, English Vietnamese Communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973). The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres. The National Liberation Front, (NLF) was an umbrella of front groups, sympathizers and allies set up by the rulers of North Vietnam to conduct the insurgency in South Vietnam. he Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; Vietnamese: Lục quân Việt Nam Cộng hòa), also known as the South Vietnamese army (SVA), were the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

# data[].attributes.body
Vietnamization was to make America less involved in the Vietnam war which was becoming unfavored in the U.S.  This strategy that was thought of by Nixon was to make south Vietnam equipped to fight their own war so the U.S. could be less involved. Though president Nixon thought this was a good idea it didn't work out very well.

# data[].attributes.body
The Pentagon Papers were secret papers About all the involvement with the Us in the Vietnam war. When the U.S. was putting an excessive amount of troops into vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg,one of the writers of the writers for the documents became opposed to the war and felt like the public should know. He began to leak information to New York Times for the public to see.

# data[].attributes.body
Who: nine Kent state university students, Ohio National Guard and protesters What: opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia Where: Kent State University, Ohio When: May 4th, 1970

# data[].attributes.body
Who: U.S., South Vietnam, North Vietnam and ChinaWhat: was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North VietnamWhen: March 1965 to October 1968Where: North Vietnam

# data[].attributes.body
Who: controlled by the Viet CongWhat: a military supply route running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. The route sent weapons, manpower, ammunition and other supplies from communist-led North Vietnam to their supporters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam WarWhen: Built/ In Use- 1959 to 1975Where: North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam