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The Vietnam war officially began on this day.
The Vietnam war officially ended on this day. North Vietnam wins and Vietnam is unified.
Vietnam is divided into North and South.
John F. Kennedy becomes president. Lyndon B. Johnson is vice president.
Advisors are sent to South Vietnam to advise the Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam.
Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson is sworn in as president.
2 Marines land in Danang and have orders to attack. Lyndon B Johnson did not tell the public about this, which contributed to the widening credibility between what the government told the people was happening, and what was actually happening.
Gulf Of Tonkin Incident occurs. America claims that Korean patrol boats attacked America boats, causing Johnson to request Congress to give him permission to repel armed attacks in Vietnam. The controversial part is, it was fake and Lyndon Johnson wanted an excuse to escalate American troops in Vietnam, and it worked.
Anti-War protests begin.
Half A million US soldiers are in Vietnam. The government repeatedly told the public that victory was coming soon.
Tet Offensive begins on this day and the public is not informed.
Tet Offensive eventually capped, but it hurts army morale that Vietnam could launch such an attack.
More bombs were dropped in the Vietnam war than the second World War. The US used chemical defoliants to get rid of jungles, as well as napalm, which was used to burn trees, homes, civilians, and enemies.
Mai Lai incident happened today, where 500 unarmed civilians, children and unarmed enemies were brutally killed. The incident happened in 1968, but it was only reported a year later.
Draft lotteries happen. The draftees in the war were also disproportionately from the lower classes, as enrollment in college gave you a deferment.
Richard Nixon elected, and he has a secret plan, which is the gradual withdrawal of American troops, and extra bombing and sending troops into Cambodia.
This escalated the war and it failed horribly. Not only did it not stop the war, but it also destabilised Cambodia, helping the Khmer Rouge to come into power, which killed a third of all Cambodians.
By 1970, the anti-war protests grew significantly and discontent within the army was enormous. Vietnam veterans were protesting, citizens were protesting, even some soldiers were protesting.
Just as the government hoped for a miracle, the opposite of a miracle happened, when in 1971, the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, classified documents that proved the government was misleading the public about the war for years. This later created the great movie, “The Post”
The US spent $100 billion on the war and 58,000 US soldiers died, as well as 3-4 million Vietnamese people. The Vietnam war was the first war that the US definitively lost, and the US lost because they didn’t understand the Vietnamese and why they were fighting.
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