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7 May 1954
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France's ass kicked
at Dien Bien Phu.
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8 Jul 1959
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First American combat
death.
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22 Mar 1962
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The Strategic Hamlet
Program commences with Operation Sunrise.
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31 May 1963
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Buddhist monk Nun Nu
Thanh Quang immolates himself at the Dieu de Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam.
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11 Jun 1963
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Buddhist monk Thich Quang
Duc immolates himself in downtown Saigon.
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16 Aug 1963
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A Buddhist monk immolates
himself in Phanthiet, Vietnam.
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1 Nov 1963
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President of South
Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Deim, assassinated.
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2 Aug 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin incident,
wherein the U.S.S. Maddox is "attacked".
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Oct 1964
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Red China, Vietnam's
principal ally, successfully detonates an atomic bomb.
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21 Oct 1964
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"We are not about to
send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what
Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
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10 Feb 1965
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The Qui Nonh Hotel is
destroyed by a VC bomb, killing 23 Americans.
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May 1966
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Buddhist nun Thich Nu
Thanh Quang immolates herself at the Dieu de Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam.
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16 Mar 1968
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My Lai
Massacre.
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30 Jan 1968
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Tet Offensive. While
technically a loss for the North Vietnamese, it caught the Americans
off-guard, and the tide of American public opinion begins to change.
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29 Feb 1968
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Robert McNamara
resigns as Secretary of Defense, apparently deciding the Vietnam War was
unwinnable.
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4 Nov 1968
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"Let me give you the
promise of the future... Prosperity without war, progress without
inflation." Nixon.
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22 Jan 1969
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Richard M. Nixon
takes office.
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Feb 1969
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Nixon authorizes the secret
bombing of Cambodia. Don't tell anyone. It's a secret.
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3 Sep 1969
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Ho Chi Minh dead
of natural causes.
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29 Apr 1970
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South Vietnamese Army invades
Cambodia. Three U.S. divisions follow 48 hours later.
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4 May 1970
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Kent State Massacre, in
which National Guardsmen open fire on American college students, killing
four.
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9 Dec 1970
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President Richard M. Nixon
orders more illegal bombing in Cambodia. "I want them to hit
everything. I want them to use the big planes, the small planes, everything
they can that will help out there[...] Right now there is a chance to win
this goddamn war, and that's probably what we are going to have to do
because we are not going to do anything at the conference table."
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21 Feb 1972
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Only Nixon could go to
China. Vulcan proverb.
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22 Jan 1973
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Ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson dies of
a heart attack.
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27 Jan 1973
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Cease fire signed in
Paris.
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Nov 1973
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War Powers act passed by
Congress.
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10 Dec 1973
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Henry Kissinger accepts the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the
Vietnam peace accord. The irony of that particular individual accepting
that particular award cannot be understated.
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9 Aug 1974
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Nixon resigns the
presidency. Gerald
Ford assumes office. [Allowing
Nelson Rockefeller to become vice-president. And if the stupid bastard
hadn’t died of a heart attack while screwing his mistress, he may have
become president.]
American History teachers: PLEASE TEACH
THE REAL HISTORY OF AMERICA. Do something right before the blade falls.
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29 Apr 1975
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Final evacuation of
Saigon.
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18 Jul 1984
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James
Oliver Huberty opens fire at a San Ysidro McDonald's,
leaving 20 dead and 16 wounded. He held off police for an hour, sometimes
taking time to finish off victims already wounded. A witness reported
Huberty, a recently dismissed security guard, as saying that he'd
"killed many people in Vietnam and wanted to kill more."
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