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Vietnam:Vietnam:The The SecondSecond
Indochina WarIndochina War
July 1954
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
1962
November 2, 1963
Diem is overthrown!
August 2, 1964
Gulf of TonkinGulf of Tonkin Resolution
August 10th
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tunnel rats
Tools of thetradefor a tunnelrat.
January 27, 1973
War Ends!
Consequences
• 58,000 lives and 350,000 American casualties.
• Between one and two million Vietnamese deaths.
• Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973.
