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1862
-The draft was officially created and used in the south

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1862-1940
-Vietnam was under the control of France

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1917
-Congress passed the selective service act in, while millions registered for the draft many resisted

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1918
-In response to the resistance, congress passed the Sedition Act - can't speak ill of government

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-Selective Services and Training Act called call men 21-35 (1940)
-Age lowered to 18 after Pearl Harbor
Draft from 1940-1973, numbers were low in 50's/60's

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1945
-the French IndoChina war began

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1947
-Truman did not want communism to spread
-he sent transport planes and jeeps, along with 35 military advisers
-end of Truman’s presidency US was funding more than one-third of France’s war costs (How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents)

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Eisenhower, 1954
-Peace agreement between France and Vietnam
-French withdrawl from IndoChina
-17th parallel

US RESPONSE
-Did not sign
-SEATO (South east Asia treaty organization)
-US supports Diem/ ARVN is supported as leader of South Vietnam, South Korea becomes a US ally (sent 50,000 troops)

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Kennedy, 1955
-Increased number of military advisors
-Stated counter-insurgency operations against communist
-Green Berets
-Encouraged Diem to introduce social and political reforms
-Strategic Hamlets

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Kennedy 1955
-Diem was the first president of the republic south Vietnam
-Anti-communist

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Kennedy 1963
Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated due to the anti-Diem movement

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1963
-Kennedy assassination
-Johnson takes over

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-By the time Johnson gets to office the Vietcong had control of more than half of South Vietnam
-He was determined to escalate US involvement
-Needed some kind of justification to convince people

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Johnson, August 2nd, 1964
-North Vietnamese ships attacked the US destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy in the gulf of Tonkin
RESOLUTION:
August 7th, 1964
-The president is doing everything in his power to repel the US

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Johnson, 1965
Act passed to prevent civilizations being drafted from burning their draft letters in protest

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Johnson, 1965
-First major battle between US and the People's Army of Vietnam

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Johnson, 1968
-Viet Cong launches a surprise attack on 36 cities against the US

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Johnson, January-July 1968
-Considered the bloodiest and longest battle between North Vietnam and the US

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Johnson, 1968
-500 people massacred by US troops
-Was eventually stopped by US plane that said it was too much
-Considered very violent battle

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Nixon, 1969-1970
-Nixon believed bombing Cambodia would weaken enemies due to Cambodia was transporting goods to them

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Nixon, 1970
-Protests continue around the coutnry after US bombs Cambodia
-Kent State protests start on May 2nd with burning of the ROTC building
Protests spill into Ohio
-Marines shot to disrupt the protests which killed 4 and injured 9 others on May 4th

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-Spring 1970, US began a campaign in Cambodia, plan crafted by Nixon and his Secretary of State
-Vietnamization : South would gradually take responsibility of war
-Nixon decreases troops
-Protests and media coverage against the war due to Massacres, Pentagon Papers, and Daniel Ellsburg (1971)

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Nixon, 1973
- United States, South Vietnam, Vietcong and North Vietnam formally sign an agreement ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam
-Signed in Paris.

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Nixon, 1973
-The US officially withdraws all troops from Vietnam and exits the war
-North Vietnamese successful
-Last US unit leaves Vietnam on March 29th, 1973

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Ford, 1975
-Ford declares war over during speech at Tulane University

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Ford, 1976
-Announced on July 2nd, 1976 with new capital of Hanoi
-Saigon officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City