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Formation of the Viet Minh

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Mao takes over China and starts to support Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam with their communist party

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USA funds the french military in Indochina for 500 million dollars per year (9 years)

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The French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu, triggering the conference at Geneva to discuss what happens with Vietnam next

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Geneva conference. Vietnam is split and US Puppet Diem is installed as the south Vietnamese leader

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Small Scale Civil war in South Vietnam

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Formation of the Viet Cong, a communist army/group of freedom fighters in the South.

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The US started catching on with what was happening in Vietnam and started anti-war peace movements in the form of riots, protests, and campaigns. It grew massive after The Mai Lai massacre, as they failed to cover up the terrible war crimes they had done.

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The first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Tet Offensive. The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong attack on the South Vietnamese (puppet) government and the US military forces. This shocked the US and its citizens as they thought the US was winning the war.

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The Mai Lai Massacre. It was the biggest war crime the US had ever committed. The US Army infiltrated Vietnamese villages and massacred every Vietnamese they saw. They killed women, children, the elderly, and people working and showed no mercy with no exceptions. May have been in response to Tet Offensive

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The Vietnamization policy was President Richard Nixon’s strategy to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam while strengthening South Vietnam’s ability to defend itself, by slowly replacing US military with trained Vietnamese with continuing naval and military support

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Paris Peace Accords. The U.S. withdrew troops from South Vietnam and gave financial aid to South Vietnam until 1975

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Full US Evacuation: Last-minute evacuation from Saigon before its fall. This marked the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam