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7 May, 02:28

Between 1969-1975, what key events happened in the Vietnam War?

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    May 1961: President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.

    November 1963: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

    February 1965: President Johnson orders the bombing of targets in North Vietnam in Operation Flaming Dart in retaliation for a Viet Cong raid at the U. S. base in the city of Pleiku and at a nearby helicopter base at Camp Holloway.

    July 1965: President Johnson calls for 50,000 more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam, increasing the draft to 35,000 each month.

    1966: U. S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000. 1967: U. S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam increase to 500,000.

    February 1967: U. S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields.

    March 1968: President Johnson halts bombing in Vietnam north of the 20th parallel.

    November 1968: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the U. S. presidential elections on the campaign promises to restore "law and order" and to end the draft.

    December 1972: President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war in Operation Linebacker.
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