Tet Offensive

During the Tet offensive, only 1536 Americans died and out of the 85,000 Viet Cong soldiers, 45,000 of them died (more than half of them) . It was constantly shown on the news day by day, showing nothing but the Americans getting the hound kicked out of them. When the reporters went down to Saigon on January 30, 1968 got the story of the lifetime. This one event changed the mindset of the war. The Tet Offensive was the start of the down fall of the American forces in the Vietnam war because…

Vietnam but when the government brought back Conscription there support began to decline and then the Tet Offensive is when they began to oppose the war.In January 1968 the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese launched a surprise attack on the towns and cities of South Vietnam it was timed with Tet Vietnamese New Year they also entered the heart of Sagion and attacked the American Embassy.Although the offensive was not successful it shock the confidence of the South Vietnamese and the…

This is obviously related to the presence of American involvement on the side of the South Vietnamese which began after the Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution passed by Congress. Even though the Tet Offensive was not a military success it was definitely a political one. It changed the narrative that President Johnson and his top aides were telling the American people about winning the war and that the end of war was on the horizon. “Westmoreland requested…

The Tet Offensive occurred right after the federal government told the American people the war was almost over as the North Vietnamese army was getting smaller and weaker, and destroyed the public’s trust in the government. The website Office of the Historian asserts that “Tet Offensive weakened domestic support for the Johnson Administration as the vivid reporting on the Tet Offensive...made clear to the American public that an overall victory…

INTRODUCTION The Vietnam war started on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30,1975. During that time there was many presidents involved for instance, Dwight D, Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford. However, the first president that send troops to help and support the South Vietnam and Diem was Eisenhower. Everything changed when Eisenhower gave a speech that it caughts other countries and The main point of this war was to stop communism from…

This event was practically for a coordinated offensive of surprise attack in Vietnam so the ARVN forces would collapse and foment discontent among the South Vietnamese population. When the U.S received notice that two destroyers were being attacked by North Vietnamese ships, President Nixon asked Congress…

History of the Vietnam War, written in 2011, David Anderson states that the Tet Offensive can be seen both as an action of survival to initiate a general offensive before U.S. arms further weakened the People’s Liberation Armed Forces and People’s Army of Vietnam (North) and as an act of political belief that the people of the South would turn on the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States. The general offensive did not lead to a popular uprising and instead exposed the…

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…

The Tet Offensive was an arranged sequence of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to provoke rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States leave the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese fought hard to hold off the attacks great damages were done. Despite the damages, North Vietnam did will with planning the Tet Offensive. Because of this the attacks were marked a turning point in…

The Tet Offensive Introduction Statement: Thesis: The Tet Offensive was the decisive factor in determining the outcome of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive was a major series of attacks following the holiday of Tet. The leaders of the Tet Offensive. The leaders of the United States were Lyndon B. Johnson and William Westmoreland. The main leader of the communist forces was Vo Nguyen Giap. The United States agreed to a temporary truce prior to the Tet Offensive.…