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RETURN TO WAR IN VIETNAM TIMELINE PAGE

Vietnam - 1954

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United States - 1954

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World - 1954

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Mar 13 - Viet Minh attack Dien Bien Phu

Mar 16 - Army/McCarthy hearings begin

May 7 - French forces at Dien Bien Phu surrender

May 17 - Brown v. Board of Education decision

Jul 21 - Geneva Accords signed - Vietnam divided

Aug 17 - Operation PASSAGE TO FREEDOM begun

Sep 3 - Communists fire on Quemoy and Amoy

Sep 8 - SEATO formed

Sep 20 - North Vietnam forms Group 100

Sep 20 - U.S.S. Nautilus commissioned

Oct 30 - U.S. Defense Dept. ends segregated units

Nov 10 - Iwo Jima memorial dedicated

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