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Tet Background 2
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-War hadn't been going well for the communist since Americans arrived
-wanted to even out the playing field with US because they were more advanced manpower and mobility wise' -general offensive/general uprising' -the believed South Vietnam would side with them |
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Tet’s Effect on Media and Communists
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-tet became a politcal victory and military failure because there were so many antiwar protests in America afterwards
-gave communists hope because they thought they had more "will to succeedd" |
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Media in America After Tet
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"U.S. military officers would insist bitterly that critical reporting about Tet and the war in general caused the American defeat, that the U.S. news media had betrayed the nation, that reporters had gone from being the Fourth Estate to acting like an enemy fifth column. "
Paraphrase: basically showed soldiers that they couldnt trust the media |
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Ronald Spector Quote about fatalities
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"From January to July 1968 the overall rate of men killed in action in Vietnam would reach an all time high and would exceed the rate for the Korean War and the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters during Quote:
World War II. This was truly the bloodiest phase of the Vietnam War as well as the most neglected one." |
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Effects on predidential campaign
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Paraphrase:
-generals were "overselling" the success of the war, so tet made citizens distrust the military -lyndon b johnson bowed out of election |
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Effect on American Media 2
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-news companies and reporters didn't trust military reports about the wars
-mutual tension and distrust with media and military -news reports were more accurate than what military officials said |
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Media effects 3
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-major journalists all expected something big from tet
- had strict rules about reporting us movement |
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Effect on soldiers
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"I had celebrated Christmas with my family in nearby Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on December 1 so I could be in Vietnam, ready for the big enemy push when it came sometime before, during or after Tet" Paraphrase: many soldiers had their R&R's cancelled |
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Tet Effects on war
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-turning point in war
-technical american victory, psychological defeat -showed problems in US military -made people rethink commitment to the war |
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Effects on Politics and War
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" In the weeks and months following the offensive, the delicate political consensus in the United States that had insured support for the war in Vietnam began to come undone" Paraphrase: americans wanted a way out -they didn't want to be in Vietnam anymore -Nixon elected -He wanted America to recover economically and emotionally |
