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14 Cards in this Set
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Pre WW2 |
-Vietnam ruled by France |
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1942 |
-Japan invades Vietnam |
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1945 |
-Japan defeated |
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1954 |
-France defeated -Peace treaty signed -Vietnam splits and Diem sets up SV |
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1960 |
-Vietcongformed |
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1961 |
-SVmilitary increased -16,000 US advisors sent to assist SV army -Vice-PJohnson tours Saigon |
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1962 |
-America’s 1st combat mission |
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1963 |
-NewPresident = Johnson -Johnsonsends combat troops -Buddhistmonks publicly set themselves alight àprotest |
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1968 |
-TetOffensive -MyLai Massacre -Peacetalks US and NV -Nixonnew president |
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1969 |
-MyLai Massacre is published on news -Antiwar demonstration |
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1970 |
-Nixon extends war to Cambodia (prevent VC using it as a base) |
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1973 |
-Ceasefire signed -US conscription ends -US troops leave |
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1974 |
-NVoffensive against SV |
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1975 |
-Saigonfalls to communists -US embassy staff rescued |
