nov 1, 1963 - President of South Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm is deposed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam - The Americans recognised the brutality of Diem's regime but were shocked at Diem's murder

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"Lyndon B Johnson gradually improvised such a strategy [to save South Vietname]…Congressional authority to take whatever measures were necessary to save South Vietnam, and then – after Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964 – it began a major military escalation." (Gaddis 2006, p. 133)
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