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1953-1961

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- the French are defeated in the battle of Dien Bien phu
-sends military assisstance group to help South Vietnam
-Geneva according happens splitting North and South Vietnam

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-rise in protest in Vietnam because of Ho Chi Mihn
-Vietcong gains power

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1961-1963

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- increased number of military advisors
-the Green Berets
-encourage Diem to introduce social and political reforms
(did nothing to stop the success of the Vietcong)
-self immolations started to spread in Vietnam (setting themselves on fire)

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-Kennedy and Diem are assassinated

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1963-1969

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-vietcong already had control of the South when he came into office
-he was determined to escalate US involvement in the South

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- first significant contact between US forces and North Vietnamese troops
-one of the greatest defeats for America during the Vietnam war
- showed how the North was ready to stand and fight, that they had the man power they needed to take over the South

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Gulf of Tonkin
-north Vietnamese troops attacked and bombed the USS Maddox

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-over 389,000 American troops were stationed in Vietnam

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-several major cities across Vietnam were attacked by the North
-helped to turn the course of the war in favor of the North Vietcong
-gave the communist Vietnamese hope of winning this war

Khe Sanh
-it was important that the US disrupt the Ho Chi Mihn trail
-the battle lasted 77 days and it was brutal the only way to resupply was in the air
-the damage was so bad the US had to abandon their base
-both sides claimed victory, yet no progress was made

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-the US began a campaign in Cambodia, a plan to bomb Cambodia
Kent State University
- students protested the Vietnam war and told the president to bring our people home
-they believed we were fighting a useless war, where we were just wasting US lives
-the protest spilled out into the town, the students burnt down the ROTC building on campus
-4 students were shot and killed causing an uproar across the country

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- After the Kent state protest Nixon decided to start deescalating the war front
- he began to propose his ideas of Vietnamization

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-Nixon decided to slowly pull American troops out of Vietnam and replace them with Southern Vietnam solider
-this was so that America didnt just pull out suddenly and leave South Vietnam high and dry

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- fighting continued after the US left in 1973 and the North were successful
-by April of 1976 ARVN had surrendered or fled the country causing the government to fall under control of the Vietcong

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-this liberation of the South Vietnam capital marked the end of the Vietnam war
-once it was conquered by the North they named it Ho Chi Minh city
- the Vietcong only suffered 100 deaths while all of the South Vietnamese solider's were either dead, captured, or surrendered