Vietnam War

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The government's policies led to rebellion in the South while the NFL was in the North Vietnam's team.
In 1940, the Japanese troops invaded French Indochina. Then the Vietnamese nationalists called the Viet Minh, began guerrilla warfare against Japan which got the US involved. The Viet Minh troops rescued US pilots that were down, located Japanese prison camps, and helped US prisoners escape, also providing advice and leadership to the Office of Strategic Services. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Viet Minh and was made a special OSS agent. When the Japanese signed a surrender form on September 2, 1945, Ho used the occasion to declare the independence of Vietnam. He called it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The French did not like the idea of having the Vietnam's independence, then later that year it drove the Viet Minh into the north of the country. Ho Chi Minh wanted to be an agent of international Communism but the US did not let him, but then they offered to ...

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of advisors to 27,000 by mid-1964 when Kennedy wanted to withdraw form Vietnam. He was determined that he would not be held responsible for allowing Vietnam to fall to the Communists. Jonhson believed that the key to success in the war in South Vietnam was to frighten North Vietnam's leaders with US military intervention. In January 1964 he approved top- secret attacks against North Vietnamese territory, including commando raids against bridges, railways, and coastal installations. Between February 7 and 10,1965, the NFL launched surprise attacks on the US air base at Pleiko, killing 8 Americans, wounding 126, and destroying 10 aircraft; they struck again at Qui Nhon, killing 23 US ...

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