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Communism starts up
Ho Chi Minh helps found the Indochinese Communist Party. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
North Vietnamese attack two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters -
war is offical
Congress authorizes President Johnson to "take all necessary measures necessary". The US wages total war against North Vietnam -
Rolling Thunder
america starts a areial bombing campagin in north vietnam -
Feild trip of 1960
American troops arrive in vietnam -
protsets begin
Students start to protest -
raiding Mai Lai
U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the town of Mai Lai -
1/2 a mil.
american troops in vietnam reach over a half a million -
The public learns about Vietnam
The American public learns of the Mai Lai massacre. -
The End
The draft ends and U.S troops leave veitnam
