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Kennedy supported the “democratic” leader until he became undemocratic. He became a dictator who basically took up communism, which JFK opposed greatly. He sent 1,000 ambassadors to Vietnam, and Diem was ultimately assasinated.

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Johnson had doubts about fighting in Vietnam, but did not want to look “soft” to other countries. He wanted to appear to be hard on communism and did not want to be impeached because of it.

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Johnson’s resolution gave the right for the president to send troops to Vietnam without declaration. This extended the powers of the president immensely. The US attacked north Vietnam again.

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Protests began as soon as bombings started in 1965. They were the same outline as the civil rights movement. Over 20,000 attended a protest in DC. Marches of over 50,000 people were becoming a daily occurrence.

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Johnson’s Decision
Not to Run for
Reelection, MLK’s Assassination, Robert Kennedy’s
Assassination, Violence at the
Democratic National
Convention, Students Seize
Columbia University

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US and Vietnam agreed to a temporary truce during Tet (Vietnamese new year). January 31, 1968, 70,000 communist soldiers staged a surprise attack on 100 south Vietnamese cities. The US helped fight them off, but this attack served as an awakening for the American people, who now felt iffy about the war.

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March 16, 1968, American soldiers stormed the My Lai village and fired upon innocent people. They ended up killing over 200 defenseless women, children, and old men.

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Nixon did not want to be the first president to lose a war. He vowed “honorable peace” and pulled troops out of Vietnam to transfer the responsibility to the south Vietnamese.

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Nixon was promising peace to the public, but he was secretly administrating more militarization in Cambodia. The US dropped 100,000 tons of explosives on Cambodia and then denied the bombings. Nixon announces that more troops had been sent in despite him saying he would pull troops out. This was in an effort to help remove communists from Vietnam.

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Four students were killed as the Ohio national guard open fired on a group of protesters who were protesting the Vietnam war. In the aftermath, a student led strike forced the closing of colleges and universities.