Tet Offensive

The story of the Weather Underground Organization begins in 1968. The events that transpired over the course of 1968 – the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the uprisings in France and at Columbia University, the Tet offensive of the national liberation forces in Vietnam, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Chicago Democratic National Convention – definitively laid the ground work and formed the political space necessary for the emergence of this particular New Left…

administration did not yield to their demands. In fact doubling down on United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’’s hawkish policies. According to a lecture from POSC 421, under United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson a battle called the TET Offensive came about. It went so terribly that it increased the opposition of the Vietnam War here in the United States of America. Soon after that, election season in the United States of America…

VIETNAM WAR 3 Vietnam War: Fighting Big Red The Vietnam War was an ongoing fight for multiple countries. The spread of communism was a widespread fear much of the world was unable to bear. Americans were among the majority of people that feared the expansion of communism, often referred to as the “Spread of Red”. There were many standpoints during the Vietnam War era,…

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

the Republic of Vietnam. Her professional competence and outstanding achievements were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon herself, her unit and the United States Army. During the enemy's Tet Offensive and other mass casualty situations, she was continually present and worked tirelessly in organizing and directing all nursing activities. Her meticulous attention to detail and astute planning ensured the smooth functioning of her staff…

In a quiet corner of Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, is the small country of Cambodia. The escalating Vietnam war drew Cambodia into years of turmoil. After 7 years of struggle, Cambodia was celebrating the end of war and the promise of a fresh start. Their celebrations lasted less than a day. On April 17th, 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, invaded Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, and citizens were forced into the countryside. This marked the start of one of the…

A Better War The Vietnam War was very controversial war among American’s. In the book “A Better War, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam”. Westmoreland was more concerned with a “kill count” versus a more focused view of the bigger picture. Whereas, Abrams was a “one war” concept type of General. The situation at home when General Creighton Abrams took command in late 1968 as the COMUSMACV Commander. The civil unrest was getting progressively worse as…

Introduction The failure of the Iraq and Afghanistan War has triggered an immense increase in the number of academic literature regarding asymmetrical warfare. It is generally assumed that the power disparity between a strong state and a weaker non-state opponent would permit the stronger adversary to win. However, history illustrates a different picture, since weak non-state actors have been the side reaping victory. This paper will limit its scope by examining why strong counterinsurgent…

vulnerabilities of American and danger of futile political war. The My Lai Massacre didn’t just happen, instead it was a disaster in the making, with several events foreshadowing and jump starting the event. The most obvious prelude was the Vietnamese Tet Offensive strike in January 1968.…

Furthermore, the zombies in this film are smarter than the average American zombie. Shifting to the comparable attributes between the film. The old vet is probably my best example. He mentions fighting in Dien Bien Phu, which is comparable to the Tet offensive of the Vietnam War. This reference is very similar to American films of this genre because of the crazy old vet. I found this aspect to be one of the best comparisons to our culture film. Even with all of these references the film is still…