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1965: Viet Cong
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May 13, 1965 - The first bombing pause is announced by the U.S. in the hope that Hanoi will now negotiate. There will be six more pauses during the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign, all with same intention. However, each time, the North Vietnamese ignore the peace overtures and instead use the pause to repair air defenses and send more troops and supplies into the South via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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Project OMEGA was started by Gen. Westmoreland as an intelligence, behind the lines, unit in 1965. As it was designed, it: gathered intelligence on enemy positions, called in air strikes, evaluated bombing damage and conducted special raids against North Vietnames and Viet Cong forces. Initially, it was comprised of 900 Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) Troops and 125 American (mostly Special Forces) personnel. It was renamed in 1967 as the Mobile Guerrilla Force and then joined the Studies and Observation Group (SOG).
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March 8, 1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam.
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The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches, ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on Washington in 1963.
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