Tet Offensive

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.…

C. Document A (236) Eddie Adams’ photograph, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is primary source depicting, what the public assumes, a savage South Vietnamese general breaking the laws of the Geneva Convention during the Tet Offensive. The antiwar movement rallied behind this photo because they characterized the brutality of the apparent war crime as a synecdoche of the entire war; however, the photo is heavily taken out of context (Elon). The man being…

problem. That all change when the battlefield is brought into American public home with the television happens to make the American question of whether going to Vietnam was a mistake. This turning point for the majority of the public opinion of the war was the Tet Offensive. Multiple of history books and texts book notes this event on the Vietnamese holiday of Tet to a turning point in the Vietnam War history. How did this event change the public opinion on the war? As state before the war was…

antiwar movement started small in 1965, however, over time it grew and started gaining more publicity in the news. New technological advancements such as the television also contributed to the anti-war effort because it brought the war into people’s living rooms. The introduction of the television allowed people to see with their own eyes how terrifying and gruesome war is and convinced many people to protest. Vietnam is often referred to as the first “living room war” because it was the first…

The Tet Offensive, written in 1996, Marc Jason Gilbert and William Head, state how historians have debated the outcome and significance of the Tet Offensive and concluded that the Communists incurred heavy losses and that Tet represented a “military defeat for the enemy.” Robert Brigham’s, “The NLF and the Tet Offensive,” argues that Tet was a costly victory for the United States and the Saigon government because the Communists came away with an “overwhelming psychological and hence political…

On January 31, 1968, during the lunar New Year holiday of Tet, the North Vietnamese, and Vet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fiercely attacked more than hundred cities and towns in South Vietnam. United States forces and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the communist attack, however, news coverage of the offensive shocked the American public. The strength of Communist forces in the Tet victory shocked the respected television journalist…

Vietcong. The media played a strong role in making the Vietnam War unwinnable. Media such as television became a lot more accessible to the public before the start of the war and many people would get their news from their televisions. The Vietnam War was the first war that was broadcasted straight into the homes of the public, which gave the media a majority of the power over what was thought about the conflict. The media changed public opinion by showing the Australian and American public…

felt it was necessary to increase military assistance in South Vietnam in order to protect the region from Communist North Vietnam. US officials feared that Communism would soon spread across the world without military intervention. In the eyes of the American public, the war efforts appear successful until 1968 when the Vietcong issued an attack on South Vietnam known as the Tet Offensive. Although the attack itself wasn’t very successful, it reveal to the American public that US war efforts in…

conflicts. During January 1968, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese conducted several simultaneous attacks against the South Vietnamese, Americans and their allies known as the Tet Offensive. There were several indicators were ignored by the Intelligence Community (IC) and intelligence officials due to perceptive predispositions and political settings which resulted in the successful surprise attacks on January 31, 1968. The purpose of this paper is to identify how a different application and…

modified the war majorly once the Tet Offensive happened. The anti-war movement was gaining lots of media attention. Reports of this war and its ensuing shock on people 's opinions has been considered for several years by students and journalists. Editors primarily in Saigon daily gave reportable details regarding battles that took place and casualty numbers. Television and the Tet offensive brought an unreal experience to the folks at home by showing them first hand accounts, raising numbers in…