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

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 nort**

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**


 * PRESIDENTIAL INVOLVEMENT [[image:turningpoints:hst.gif align="left" caption="hst.gif"]] **


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> KENNEDY
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