The Importance Of The Tet Offensive In The Vietnam War

Throughout the United States, the Vietnam War is well known. It was a bloody battle that stretched for around twenty years and affected the lives of many people, either directly or through their relatives who either fought in or simply lived through the time of the Vietnam war. The war, as its title would suggest, took place in Vietnam, between North (communist) Vietnam, and South (noncommunist) Vietnam, which was supported by the United States. It was a long and complicated war that strongly affected both the United States and Vietnam. While there were many significant events and battles that shaped the Vietnam war, the most important turning point in the war was the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive was a large scale attack by the North on the South. It began on January 31, 1968 and didn’t end until many months later. The attack was planned by General Vo Nguyen Giap who was at the time the leader of the North Vietnam army, called the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam. The importance of the Tet Offensive had a lot to do with why it was launched and what events led up to these reasons. The most important event that led up to the reasons for the launching of the Tet offensive was the United States getting involved in the war. The US allied with the South because of the “domino theory”. This theory was that if one …show more content…
This very clearly shows how important the public’s opinion about a war is, and additionally how important it is to speak one’s mind because every person can make a difference. While learning about an event in history alone is important, the best thing that can be done is for everyone to take their own message out of what they learn because most of the time someone will remember that much longer than they will remember specific dates or