Vietnam+-+Path+to+War




 * A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIETNAM [[image:turningpoints/vietnamsill.gif align="right"]]**

Pre 1800s – **Vietnam has XXXXXXXXXXXXX rulers, influenced by XXXXXXXXXXXX**

LATE 1800s – **Vietnam is a XXXXXXXXXXXX colony**

1930s – **communist revolts led by XXXXXXXXXXXX – Ho Chi Minh flees to China and USSR**

1940s – **Ho Chi Minh forms XXXXXXXXXXXX party in order to liberate Vietnam – declare independence in 1945**

1954 – **Vietminh successfully XXXXXXXXXXXX French in north Vietnam and establish communist government in north**

1954 – **Vietnam is split XXXXXXXXXXXX by the Geneva Accords, with free elections to be held in 1956 to unite the nation**

LATE 1950s – **XXXXXXXXXXXX in Vietnam between Communist North and American-supported South**

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 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT **
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 * ** TRUMAN **
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 * =** The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution **=

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 * [[image:http://cdn.dipity.com/uploads/events/0bbab3dff8455159bcacb94c240ceb82_1M.png]] || =** Operation Rolling Thunder **=

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 * = American ground troops enter Vietnam =

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My questions about the Vietnam War: