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RETURN TO WAR IN VIETNAM TIMELINE PAGE

Vietnam - 1953

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Jan 7 - Truman announces hydrogen bomb

Jan 20 - Dwight Eisenhower inagurated President

Mar 5 - Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin dies

May 25 - U.S. conducts only nuclear artillery test

Jun 27 - Korean War amistice signed

Aug 12 - Soviet Union tests hydrogen bomb

Sep 14 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st Secretary

Oct 1 - U.S./South Korea defense treaty signed

Nov 20 - French builds defenses at Dien Bien Phu

Dec 1 - Viet Minh surrounds Dien Bien Phu

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