Purpose Of The Tet Offensive In Vietnam

A Tet is a major Vietnamese holiday and the Tet Offensive was when North Vietnam did not respect the Cease fire and launched missiles at every major city, capitol, and army base. The goal of the Tet Offensive was to destroy South Vietnams government and it would be taken over by communists. After the Tet Offensive the US divided themselves into two realities. The first reality was that Tet was a victory for the US because the Vietcong were wiped out by the military because it was a traditional battle. The US soldiers had no problem with identifying who they were against because they were in uniforms. Reality two was how the public viewed the Tet offensive. The Tet Offensive was shown on live TV and the people saw the solders fighting, being killed, and complaining. LBJ told the people that the war was almost over and when they saw the Tet Offensive they felt as though LBJ had lied to them. The people became divided half wanted the war to continue and the other half wanted the war to end. …show more content…
People that supported the war were called hawks and those that were against the war were called doves. The hawks believed the war should continue because of the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is the idea of if one country falls to communism than all of the neighboring countries will fall to communism too. The hawks believed so strongly in the war that they went as far as if you did not support the war then you were un-patriotic. The Doves saw the war as wrong because the US was supporting dictators not democrats. The doves were enraged with the body counts, and the Agent Orange and how the men were lied to and it ended up causing problems