Tet Offensive Thesis

Tet Offensive Thesis
Jada Eckel
Mrs. Koehler
English 10
28 February 2016
Tet Offensive
The Vietnam war was started and lasts until 1968 when the Vietnamese launched their Tet
Offensive. The Tet Offensive was a surprise for the United States because at that time we didn't
think any country would be able to surprise attack us like the Tet Offensive did. The Tet offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of this war, it was built of over 80,000 communist troops
all coming together to all attack the United States hoping in return, we would end the war.
On January 31, 1968, thousands of North Vietnamese forces launched the Tet Offensive, originally
named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet. Many large attacks on more than 100 cities and
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Although the Tet Offensive did not have incredibly huge problems in South Vietnam as the leader
expected, it made a major impact in the United States. It turned out to be a rather good result for
Vietnam because the American public opinion against the war had us thinking that we should not be
supporting the war. According to encyclopedia "even if the offensive did not bring immediate
victory, the Communists calculated it would allow rural forces to disrupt the pacification program,
destroy the American illusion of success" ( Paragraph 2 )The Tet Offensive proved to be a good
success but also very tragic. More than 200,000 troops were sent to be a part of Tet Offensive. The
War finally ends on February 22nd 1968. It resulted in thousands of deaths, and an ending that
neither side was happy about. The United States and Vietnam both didn't win the war although they
refused to show that or say that. Instead we would say how the war turned out to be a
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Mental Illnesses In The Vietnam War
The human psyche is something that no one can fully understand. Mental diseases and disorders
can't be cured, but only reduced or buried. Dennis Miller joined the military to challenge himself
and to see what war is like. When he was in the TET offensive he lost men when the enemies shot
down their huey. He shows signs of mental scars after the Vietnam War. We need to show gratitude
and respect to all veterans of war. When remembering Vietnam veterans, it is important to consider
what they had to experience, the lasting effects of war, and the losses they had to endure.The
Vietnam war leaves unforgiving and tenacious effects for all sides. Dennis Miller joined the Vietnam
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Soldiers who protected us will always be remembered and honored for their service. Miller himself
participated in a war with a death toll of near two million people. He saw and made contact with a
dead body, his best friend died, and some of his platoon soldiers died. Miller witnessed death take its
toll on others in many situations. "And when Kent State, and the National Guard fired on those
troops, they said, 'Holy shit! I don't want to get shot at. I just want to make an ass of myself.' And I
think Kent State was the greatest thing that happened to protest movement, because it almost
stopped after that. Sure, seven people died. Well, I can name a lot of people that died (Miller)."
Miller's tone when stating that seven people died like it was nothing and saying that he can name a
lot of people that died shows that he himself knows many soldiers who died in battle. To
memorialize those who have served in the Vietnam War we have to understand the pain and
suffering they went through, the pain that will never go away, and the lives that were lost. The
soldiers went to foreign land and risked their lives everyday. Those who came back from war still
continue to suffer in the claws of war. They suffer from loss of friends and loved

The Tet Offensive
American politics, media, and the Tet Offensive each played a role in affecting the course of the war
in Vietnam. The citizens of America were focused on politics because of what was being talked
about. Politics took a turn that led to many deaths and huge situations that the public was not ready
for. Media was promoting the Vietnam War negatively so that no one would support the war and that
slowed down the whole war itself. Lastly, the Tet Offensive changed the course of the war by
making more Americans opposed to the war, like the other two factors. The Tet Offensive was a
series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than one hundred cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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People believe that the media played a large role in the U.S. defeat. They claim that the media's
inclination toward negative reporting helped to eliminate support for the war in the United States.
However, many experts who have studied the role of the media have concluded that prior to 1968
most reporting was actually supportive of the U.S. effort in Vietnam. An assessment made by Walter
Cronkite, an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News
for 19 years, in 1968 said that the Vietnam conflict was mired in stalemate. He basically said that the
U.S. had lost the war; the negative tone of reporting may have reflected rather than created similar
feelings among the American public. Reporting from Vietnam was uncensored, but during the war
there were occurrences in which the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, a joint–service
command of the United States Department of Defense, found a journalist guilty of violating military
security. American disillusionment with the war was something that the media had and they
expressed it

The Students for a Democratic Society of the late 1960’s...
The 1960's was a happening decade. It was a time when many people came together for a common
good and stood against injustice. The 60's is often recalled as the era of the peace sign, one ridden
with hippies, marijuana and pacifism. While true of much of the era, some of the movements calling
for immense social change began as non–violent harbingers of change and later became radicals.
The reason for this turn to radicalism, as seen in the case of the Students for a Democratic Society,
and as suggested by the change between this organizations earlier Port Huron statement and the later
Weatherman Manifesto, is due to the gradual escalation of the Vietnam war. The Port Huron
Statement, issued in 1962 by a group of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
The goal of the RYM is to "dismember and dispose of US imperialism." It is amazing that it took
just seven years for the Students for a Democratic Society to change from an organization that sees
the United States as fundamentally good but in need of change through peaceful means to an
organization that sees the United States as an imperial evil and calls for violent revolution. The Port
Huron Statement comes from the beginning of a new decade. The fresh tactics of sit ins and protests
still show promise of inducing change. The Weatherman Manifesto came after years of protests and
continued escalation in Vietnam. During those seven years a lot changed. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson
started a large escalation in Vietnam with Operation Rolling Thunder which increased troops and
initiated massive bombing campaigns. By the end of 1965 almost 200,000 marines were deployed in
Vietnam. The first draft card burnings at University of California, Berkeley took place in 1965. In
October of 1967 there was a stop the draft week where more than a thousand people returned their
draft cards. In January of 1968 the Tet Offensive began. This, along with dead American soldiers
was in the newspapers and broadcasted into people's homes. It was all of

Fear And War : ' Burning Monk '
Alex Knych
10/19/15
EN–103
Fear & War
"War does not determine who is right– only who is left".Imagine being in a state of constant fear.
From prosecution by the hands of your own government to roving Communist guerillas, war is a
horrific experience for everyone involved. The Vietnam War was the longest war in American
history and was by far the most unpopular war America had entered in the 20th century. "It resulted
in nearly 60,000 American casualties and in an estimated 2 million more Vietnamese"(WWW).
Even today, many Americans still ask whether or not the American effort in Vietnam was a sin, a
blunder, or even necessary, while others question whether it was a noble cause, or an overly
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This early attack did not lead to widespread defensive measures. When the main communist
offensive began the next morning the attack was countrywide and well–coordinated, eventually
more than "80,000 Communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44
provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the southern
capital of Saigon." The TET offensive was the largest military operation conducted by either side up
to that point in the war.
In the photo "Saigon Execution", Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and
shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head, then he proceeded to walk over to the
reporters and tell them that, "These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive
me." Captured on NBC TV cameras and by AP photographer Eddie Adams, the picture and film
footage flashed around the world and rapidly became a symbol of the Vietnam War's brutality. This
was the scene the common person was exposed to back in the states.
Eddie Adams' picture is especially striking, as the moment captured is one almost at the instant of
death. As with many photos and stories, there is a side that is often unheard or told. South
Vietnamese sources said that Lem commanded a Vietcong death squad, which on that day had
targeted South Vietnamese National Police officers, or in

Tet Offensive Effect
In January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive, name for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year on which the
North Vietnamese Army launched a huge surprise large–scale attacks against the South Vietnamese
government and the U.S military which is marked the beginning of the end of the U.S military
present in Vietnam and its role in the war. Even though the U.S won during the battle of the Tet
Offensive and they have suffered a great loss of many American lives. This attacks has proved that
the American military once again has failed to learn from the French because this is a type of attack
that were using against the French by the Vietminh guerrillas even though amount of death from the
Viet Cong was much larger and the U.S were able to eliminated most of them

Essay On Tet Offensive
In August of 1964, the USS Maddox had reported being engaged by the North Vietnamese Navy.
This was known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident and lead to the official involvement of the U.S. in
Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Additionally, this also lead to the conscription of
military aged males between the ages of 18–25. Typically, the conscription was taken from the poor
and working classes, those who afford college. Considering the conscription, this lead to 25 percent
our forces being draftee. On the Vietnam new year known as Tet, some 70,000 NVA and VC
conducted a mass attack on U.S. and South Vietnam held bases and towns. Although the Tet
Offensive failed in taking control over these bases and town, it was still claimed as a victory ...
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I found this unjustified, because they are promoting and inciting military desertion. According to the
Uniformed Code of Military Justice(UCMJ), Article 85, "Any member of the Armed forces who (2)
quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk
important service...(C) Any person found guilty of desertion or attempt to desert shall be punished,
if the offense is committed in time of war, by death..." In my opinion, the death penalty should have
been applied at the start of GI's refusing to fight in the conflict, this would have detoured others
from following suit. Another antiwar group is the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and in 1971,
they wrote a letter entitled, Statement to Congress. I found it interesting how, within their letter they
state, "Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam
someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the
entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a

The Tet Offensive: The Vietnam War
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Vietnam conflict has impacted the United States of America.
The United States and the Soviet Union have been in a Cold War among each other of competing of
among both superpower states. The United States got involved in the Vietnam War by the fear that
communism will spread out the Indochina regions with countries such as Laos and Cambodia if
Vietnam becomes a communist state. The theory of the fear that the United States have about
communism spreading throughout the Southeast Asian country if one country within the Southeast
Asian country fell to communism was called the domino theory. By the year of 1962, the United
States Military has been in South Vietnam and has about 9,000 troops. The United States started to
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Johnson. President Johnson was granted the power to be able to use military forces to advance and
engage the enemy forces because of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The United States Government
believe that the war with Vietnam will end very soon and the communists would be defeated. As the
battles with the American forces against with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong, the United States
experienced a turn of events of the war when the American public has foreseen that the war in
Vietnam. In the beginnings of 1968, the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese coordinated an attack
on major cities and towns throughout Southern Vietnam. The event was called the Tet Offensive.
The Tet Offensive has resulted in major causalities for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong with
having thousands of their soldiers killed. However, the reports of the Tet Offensive were widely
publicized has caught the attention throughout the American public. Photographer Eddie Adams
took a picture of Nguyen Loan, the chief of police in Saigon, took his sidearm and shot and killed a
suspected Vietcong soldier in the head. This image has been an iconic remembrance of the brutality
of the Vietnam

The Game Of Baseball Was Invented By Abner Doubleday Essay
The game of baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday, in 1839– 177 years ago from today.
Baseball has been, and is still today, known as America's favorite pastime; additionally, due to its
extensive history and partaking it monumental events, it can as well serve as a great topic to use in a
story or poem. Poet Dale Ritterbusch, uses the game of baseball along with metaphors in his poem
as a vehicle to write about a more substantial subject in poetry, the Vietnam War. His poem, "Behind
the Plate", can be simply over–looked to one as just a poem about an overweight catcher;
nonetheless, when closely examined, it has a deeper meaning. Authors Michael Cocchiarale and
Scott Emmert, both agree with the statement that baseball is a great outlet for further analysis of a
more important subject: "Writers have seen sports, particularly baseball, as a useful vehicle for
cultural and epistemological analysis" (Cocchiarale). The poem, "Behind the Plate", starts off with
the line: "Always the dumbest and fattest kid played catcher" (Ritterbusch, "Behind"); however,
Dale Ritterbusch chose to start this poem with that statement for a reason– it sets a tone for the rest
of the poem to have a certain meaning. The fat catcher is known to specifically represent America in
the Vietnam War; the catcher is fat because, well, in history catchers in baseball are often
overweight. Additionally, in general– one who is fat in sports often has a disadvantage, even in the
case of being a catcher, and

The Danger Of New Media
There is perhaps nothing more satisfying than lazing on the couch, munching on one's favorite
snack, and binging one's life away with entertaining, but mind–numbing television shows and
movies. Today, it is quite evident that schooling plays a major role in influencing and shaping the
population, but it may in fact be mass media that plays the largest role. To a certain extent, how we
choose to perceive the world is entirely in our hands. However, most of the time this is not the case;
there are times where we have no control over what we perceive because it is so dependent on our
environment and the influences that surrounds us, especially mass media. Samuels once said "The
danger of new media is not so much whether the content is corrupting or enlightening; the problem
is that it eats away all of our fundamental oppositions between truth and reality, technology and
nature, self and other, and memory and perception" (citation here). I truly believe that there are quite
a number of prominent films that consistently blur the lines between the dichotomies that Samuel
mentions in Inception is deception. One such film is the classic horror film The Shining, directed by
Stanley Kubrick. At first glance, this movie may appear to be the typical horror movie; but looks can
be deceiving, as the film is filled to the brim with sophisticated concepts and ideas about subjects
like identity and society. This film actively attempts to obscure the distinction of self and other, and
of

Tet Offensive Book Report
I was pretty lucky to find this book because it directly focuses on my research question. This book
spotlights the Tet Offensive and the lasting effects that it had on America's involvement in the
Vietnam War. James Willbank's thesis states that the Tet Offensive was a "pivotal event" in the
Vietnam War that "forever changed" America's commitment to the cause. The organization of the
book is very well thought out. At first, he gives the audience a quick overview of the events leading
to the Tet Offensive. The author then separates each major event of the Tet Offensive
(Saigon/Embassy, Hue, Khe Sanh) into easy to read chapters. Willbanks then wraps up with the
media's involvement in the war and how it influenced the public's opinion.

Public Media And The Media During The Vietnam War
The role public media played in the Vietnam war was unprecedented: television brought live images
even video clips to Americans' sitting room, photographs and reports from the war front brought the
latest news of the battles, documentaries and films depicted the sensational stories from the war and
war heroes. Bearing so many social influences, medias were somewhat blamed for being responsible
for the loss of war by many historians. Most of them attributed the responsibility to the television
which undermined the political and military efforts, and to the journalists and broadcasters who
opposed the war–––finally led to the burst of domestic anti–war sentiments. But that is not true.
(New American Nation) With eloquent supporting evidence, U.S. domestic medias during the
Vietnam war was not the major contributor to the cease–fire and the loss of the Vietnam because
they pertain supportive biases within reports in general. Also for their effort of postponing yet
hampering the transfer of sensitive reports to the public under government censorship. Lastly for the
ineffectiveness of reports in changing public opinion shown in the poll. Media during war time
usually have biases, those during Vietnam war had no exception. While many people perceive the
media's' biases to be opposing the war, against military authority, revealing the vile practice under
the surface, newspapers and journalists before 1968 was almost supportive to the efforts war per a
military historian Ronald

The Tet Offensive Of The Vietnam War
January 31, 1968 North Vietnamese attacked over 100 cities throughout South Vietnam on thirty–
five of forty–four province capitals, thirty–six district towns, and many villages and hamlets.
Dubbed the "Tet Offensive" because it coincided with the Vietnamese New Year's holiday, Tet, was a
turning point in the Vietnam War. Most historians agree that the Tet Offensive was the turning point
in the Vietnam War as events shifted the role of United States involvement in Southeast Asia as the
shock it produced was the catalyst that led to the reevaluation of U.S. policy. While intelligence
failure contributed to the shift in the Vietnam War, most historians have disagreed on the role of the
media in aiding the American public's views against the war.
The Tet Offensive Intelligence Failure in War, written in 1991, James J. Wirtz argues, that Tet was
unsuccessful because it failed to achieve its main goal which was to put an end to the war under
communists terms. However, the communists had not for seen the reaction it would have especially
how it would lead to the failure of U.S. policies in South Vietnam. Indeed, Tet had essential positive
effects for Hanoi as it revealed that the immense U.S. military presence had not been able to stop the
North Vietnamese Army infiltration into the South. Wirtz claims that the communist offensive was
both a dismal military failure and a brilliant political success. Richard Betts agrees with Wirtz's
claim that, "Tet did not end the

Tet Offensive Turning Point
Although the Tet offensive was one of America's greatest tactical victories, however it was a great
political loss for the Americans. America saw a victory and a loss, tactically America won while
politically America suffered a drastic loss. The attack intensified the anti–war movement in
America, it also discredited U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. military officials. The Tet
offensive was a great representation of a major turning point politically and socially against the
Americans. When asked on the involvement of American troops in the Vietnam War, Charles De
Gaulle stated "I predict... that you will, step by step, be sucked into a bottomless military and
political quagmire" The Vietnam War should have been negotiated to an immediate ... Show more
The U.S. public opinion worsened when General William Westmoreland requested 200 000 more
troops in addition to the 500 000 that were already in Vietnam at the time, to fly in from the United
States to South Vietnam these again contradicting President Johnson's assurances, this also showed
the urgency of the American military as they were quite vulnerable to surprise attacks. Although the
Tet offensive was regarded as a tactical win for the United States, many believed that there appeared
to be no breaking poin in the Vietcong's will to continue fighting against the American army. The
new reinforcements to the military would bring the U.S. military to a total of three–quarter of a
million troops. CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was heard saying: "We have been too often
disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have
faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds.... For it seems now more certain
than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are mired in
stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion." It was becoming quite evident
that frankly no amount of U.S. military power would be enough to persuade the Vietcong to meet at
the negotiation table. Westmoreland's request left many startled not only were the public startled but
so were congressman, senators, foreign–policy makers and even President Johnson himself. Many
U.S. government officials questioned whether the war was actually "winnable" at all, and if the war
was "winnable" were the tactics the U.S. used correct, thus the Tet offensive had quite a political
strain on the United States, with government officials even questioning the military. Many
politicians just couldn't handle the strain and stress, they were forced

The American Citizens Opinion and the War in Vietnam
The opinion of the citizens of the United States began to change as time passed and incidents took
place. The government misled the people, the people became dissatisfied with the current situation
and families were torn apart. As American got sucked deeper into the war, Americans wanted to get
out more badly. The growth of anti–war movements was caused by a mixture of different factors.
The decline of support for the Vietnam War mainly started in 1968. Although antiwar movements in
the United States had been occurring before, the Tet Offensive opened the eyes of countless people.
General Westmoreland had assured the public that the war was going to come to a swift end soon,
that there was "light at the end of the tunnel". But on January ... Show more content on
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The killings touched off protests at hundreds of college campuses across the United States; many of
these also turned violent, and two more students were killed in mid–May at Jackson State University
in Mississippi. The antiwar movements brought tension between classes. Some people tried to get
desk work jobs in the military, doing paperwork or typing things to avoid being on the front line.
The majority of soldiers fighting in the war were young people with little education from lower–
class families. The deaths at protests made political decision making difficult. Congress tried
passing laws that limited the Presidents power.
By the mid–1960 's, television was how the American public got their source of news. In 1964, 58%
of Americans got most of their news from television. And by 1972, that number rose to 64%. Media
had a huge effect on the popular opinion of US citizens. Before the Tet Offensive took place, the
media supported the effort at Vietnam. Reporting of military victories and progress. At that time,
there was no military censorship which meant that journalists could follow soldiers to the front lines
and report their observations without going through the government. During the Vietnam War was
the first time the horror of war was brought into the living rooms of Americans. The American
public could

The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was unquestionably the biggest occurrence of the Vietnam War. While the
military success of the Viet Cong in mounting a sustained revolt in cities across South Vietnam was
virtually non–existent, the psychological impact it had on the American public was quite simply
phenomenal. This effect was partially due to the reporting of the war by the media. To completely
understand the impacts of Tet, we must first understand the goals of Tet. The execution of Tet was a
failure on the battlefield; however, it proved to be an astounding success on college campuses across
America. The main objectives of the Tet Offensive of 1968 were to mount numerous uprisings in
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A majority of the fighting during the war took place away from urban areas, in small villages and
hamlets were the residents were sometimes Viet Cong guerillas. The only real way to pick out the
enemy combatants in Vietnam was to look for their weapon. Even so, the usual non–combatants
(women and children) were quite frequently combatants or in worse cases weapons. It was not
unusual for the children to be booby–trapped and approach a group of soldiers to kill them. The
manner in which this war was fought was not good. Not only were the armed forces fighting the war
with one armed tied behind their back, but also they often had a hard time knowing who was the
enemy. The fight was never brought to the enemy. The only action that took place in North Vietnam
was bombing, and even then it was the bombing of targets picked for political reasons, not strategic
reasons. It is reasonable to think that if the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, and Air Force were given
free reign to fight the war in the manner they saw fit the outcome would be quite the opposite of
what actually happened. This is also a source of doubt for the American citizen. Most adults living
in the United States knew how the war was being fought, or more appropriately how the war wasn't
being fought. This was not a case where body politic of US made the decision early on to win and
win big.
Another attribute which led wasn't helping the situation was the

A Pyrrhic Victory Is Defined, Per Merriam-Webster, As “A
A pyrrhic victory is defined, per Merriam–Webster, as "A victory that is not worth winning because
so much is lost to achieve it." For much of America in the era of the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive
could be defined as such a victory. In this paper I will first define the Tet Offensive in a concise
manner, give the arguments supporting an American victory and the reciprocal considering a North
Vietnamese victory, and finally make a conclusion supporting the thesis that in the long term, the
North Vietnamese defeated the South Vietnamese and by proxy the Americans, peaking at the Tet
Offensive. Early in 1968, the North Vietnamese concocted and pursued an attack on an American
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Starting at 3:00 A.M. on the 31st of January, the North Vietnamese regulars and Vietcong (North
Vietnamese sympathizers and guerillas in South Vietnam) performed attacks on many provincial
capitals and major cities, also attacking U.S. bases. This force of over 80,000 men contributed to the
largest offensive action the Americans had seen since the start of the war. The size of the individual
attacks varied but followed a rehearsed and well–planned out plan consisting of different waves
starting with sappers, main forces, and propaganda forces. It becomes increasingly clear to the
ARVN and the U.S. forces that these attacks weren't just random hit–runs that became the status quo
of the enemy, this was a well–thought attack strategy. The military high command was still insisting
that Khe Sanh was the real target of the large–scale offensive and had underestimated the North
Vietnamese ability to congeal into a major offensive fighting force, while the media was watching it
all. The exact ending date can be hard to pin down, and most American accounts place it at the end
of March with the lifting of the Siege of Khe Sanh. However, for the North Vietnamese, the fighting
that continued late into September was part of the plan starting with the Tet Offensive. After the
heavy losses occurred during the earlier fighting, the North Vietnamese sent down replacements of
equal size to the original force, but the offensive came at no surprise to the Allies. For the military,

Tet Offensive Tactics
While serving in the Marine Corps infantry, it was drilled into my head that in order to win on the
battlefield, one needed to strike faster, harder, and more aggressive than the enemy. These tactics
have proven to be very efficient on the front lines, and have won countless battles for many U.S.
troops. Though our actions on the front lines may be very effective, they are not the only deciding
factors in winning the war. Without the support from the people back home, our battlefield
objectives would be very hard to obtain. America learned this lesson first hand during the Vietnam
war, and more specifically, during the attacks of the Tet Offensive.
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I will begin by giving a brief explanation of how the U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War, along
with some of the motives that sparked the conflict. In order to understand the full picture of the
Vietnam war, I believe that it is important to know why America was there in the first place. Next, I
will be discussing the events of the Tet Offensive and the battles that followed. The massive attack
launched against U.S. troops during the Tet Offensive caused a shift in the war that had many
negative outcomes for America. Following the events of the Tet Offensive, I will discuss the media's
role in the conflict. The Vietnam War was the first American war to be broadcasted for all to see.
This brings me to my next, and final point, the public's opinion. The availability of combat footage
led to the spark of many antiwar movements. Many antiwar protests took place at universities, such
as the University of South Carolina, and in the nation's capital. I hope that by sharing my point of
view on the subject, I will help to connect the dots between the Tet Offensive, carried out by the
North Vietnamese, and America's less than victorious withdrawal from the Vietnam

The Tet Offensive In Vietnam
Vietnam was the first war that allowed full freedom to the press, allowing the media to cover the
war in their own light. Without censorship, appalling images showed the public the sites of war they
had never seen before. Many people believe that the media started the lack of support for the
Vietnam War. For example, the Tet Offensive would become "one of the most controversial and
climactic events in which the media played a role" (). Until the Tet Offensive, the media had
portrayed the U.S. winning the war. However, when the North Vietnamese sprung an attack on the
U.S. embassy in Saigonthe, the American public felt as if they were there. As the media started to
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"What is ironic, however, is that the young conservative activists had a broader following and more
lasting influence. Many leftist groups collapsed soon after Vietnam ended, while more conservative
groups went on to expand on their already strong political foundation" (Gahr 184).
Besides failing to mention the conservative trend among the American youth in the 60's, the media
also did them a disservice. The media gave viewers the idea that the anti–war movement was led by
pacifists and idealists. The group that was actually in charge were the Marxists. This group,
composing of both men and women, wanted a Communist victory. The media did not show the
Marxist's communist and Viet Cong flags that were raised during rallies; yet they ignored organizers
of the "peace movement". The media gave left–wing ideology a good name and ignored the
conservative parties

The 1968 Tet Offensive In The Vietnam War
The 1968 Tet Offensive was a series of battles which took place during the Vietnam War where the
North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the National Liberation Front (NLF) attacked the Army of the
Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and U.S. Forces in South Vietnam. This major offensive by the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) forces which were initiated on January 30th of 1968 in
coordination with Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. The offensive is historically labeled as a military
defeat for the DRV forces while ultimately being a strategic victory through it's ability to turn major
American public opinion against support of the war effort in Vietnam. "Johnson's decision to halt
escalation after the Tet Offensive marked a crucial turning point in American participation in the
Vietnam War." (History.com Staff 2009)
The strategic victory of the DRV's NVA and NLF over the ARVN and U.S. Forces in Vietnam was
enabled by a bold political campaign that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
"much of the American public saw it [the Tet Offensive] as stark evidence that the war could not be
won at a reasonable cost." (Lawrence 2008) The NLF had laid siege to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon,
a major center of U.S. power, and attacked hundreds of cities and villages. It was reasonably
assumed by the American public that an enemy in retreat could not launch such a large offensive,
and inherently this caused great concern over the situation in Vietnam. "The images of the American
embassy under siege and the stark contrast between the fierce fighting during Tet and the optimistic
estimates and reports emanating from Washington in the period just prior to the attacks contributed
to the interpretation of the Tet Offensive as a political and moral defeat for the U.S." (Walton, J.

Essay On The World Revolution Of 1968
ORIGIN OF THE UPRISALS
There have been many speculations on the fundamental origins of the World Revolution of 1968.
Although these speculations agree on the background reasons of political protests centering the year,
arguments vary on the attribution to the social changes during the two decades that followed the
World War II. The World Revolution of 1968 was not something that materialized out of thin air; it
was an epicenter of social changes that took place over the course of two decades.
With the great help of United States, the world especially Europe was recovering from the disasters
of the World War II. The status quo of the west seemed on the way to restoration if not actually
already rejuvenated. The stimulated economic growth saw many young adults pursuing their studies
to university level as the world strived to survive the aftermath of the World Wars. The endeavors to
move forward and focus on ensuring the sustainability formulated a silent consensus to give way to
peaceful prosperity and low tolerance to any fabrications of war. Thus, the continual engagement of
wars definitely exhausted the world–system into an arena of a period of basically crafting the main
characteristics of the then ensuing Cold War.
The era was ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Khrushchev's new party program pressed for reforms in industrial agriculture and party programs to
the great displeasure of party members leading to his replacement by Leonid Brezhnev. That it
permitted young people in Soviet to listen to Western music and follow the fashion and ultimately to
copy paste the quest of the protests of 1968 enabling the revolution to be worldwide.They mirrored
the artistic freedoms as well as a revival of religious belief and practice but when taking to the
streets pasting the western uprisals–criticizing the state seeking reforms it was met by harsh
repression of the

Tet Offensive Essay
By 1968, more than half of the American people relied on television as their principal source of
news. What they saw informed, engrossed, and unsettled them. CBS Evening News anchor Harry
Reasoner referred to it as "horrors and failures." The Vietnam War dominated the network newscast
as it never had before. Suddenly the war was everywhere. The impact on the American public would
indeed be great. It set off a critical reaction to the war within the American media and gave greater
credence to arguments against the war that a vocal protest movement had been voicing for some
time. The media coverage of the Tet Offensive had a great influence on the eventual outcome of the
fighting and its aftermath. Clarence Wyatt, author of Paper

Tet Offensive Vietnam Summary
Olson and Roberts introduces the chapter when the NVA launched major offensive against the US
Marine base at Khe Sanh, located just below the DMZ (165). The goal was not the Khe Sanh as the
target, but the US commanders decided to send 50,000 of his men as reinforcements in order to
secure and hold the base. Viet Cong chose the Khe Sanh in order to make the Americans forces
weaker farther into the South, which is a more significant offensive. The Viet Cong begun the Tet
Offensive, which is Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communists gets the a huge amount of
general offensive due to while the US forces are still at the North in Khe Sanh that they have been
planned out for years. Tet and the Year of the Monkey was the Vietnamese new year holiday ...
The entire US government and the Democratic party were split into pro–war and antiwar factions
also affected by the attack turned the Americans against the idea of the war from happening. In
February 1968, Robert McNamara is Johnson's own secretary of defense who resigned. Also in
February 1968, over 500,000 US troops were stationed in Vietnam, but almost 30,000 of the troops
had been killed in an unknown war that was hard to win and defeat. In March 1968, the American
policy and public makers alike were dumbfounded when the leaders of of the Joint Chiefs of staff
and Westmoreland requested 200,000 more soldiers in order to send to Vietnam(173). Johnson
contradicted Westmoreland the additional troops due to Westmoreland's request of threatened the
army's strategy of victory of erosion and aroused multiple foreign policy officials along with Dean
Acheson, who is the former secretary of state. The North Vietnamese Army benefitted no territory
for more than a brief period, comparing 3,000 dead South Vietnamese and Americans together
comparing to 40,000 Vietnamese Communist troops dead. But as a result Ho Chi Minh's armies
were severely blemished due to the Tet

The Tet Offensive In Vietnam
On January 31, 1968, the Vietnamese lunar New Year holiday Tet, roughly 80,000 troops from North
Vietnam and the Viet Cong, launched a surprise, and coordinated attack on numerous cities and
towns in South Vietnam, to include the American base at Danang and even the American embassy in
Saigon. The goal was to drive a wedge between America and South Vietnam and hopefully destroy
their alliance. This attack was known as the Tet Offensive. In the years preceding 1968 the Tet
holiday was used as a day for an informal truce between South Vietnam and North Vietnam, along
with their Communist southern allies known as the Viet Cong. In 1968, fed up with the stalemate
that was taking place, North Vietnamese commander General Vo Nguyen Giap decided that he
would use the holiday to launch a surprise offensive on his enemies and essentially catch them while
they were sleeping. He believed that if his plan succeeded, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
would crumble and cause discontent and rebellion in the people of South Vietnam and cause
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In their next step, on January 21, 1968, North Vietnamese forces began to bombard a U.S. Marine
garrison at Khe Sanh. This was an important garrison due to its location on a principal road into
Laos. President Lyndon B. Johnson and General William Westmoreland, commander of the U.S.
forces, made the decision to focus on defending Khe Sanh. General Giap was using this attack as a
distraction to set up the Tet

It 's More Than Just Baseball Essay
It's More Than Just Baseball The game of baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday, in 1839– 177
years ago from today. Baseball has been, and is still today, known as America's favorite pastime;
additionally, due to its extensive history and partaking it monumental events, it can as well serve as
a great topic to use in a story or poem. Poet Dale Ritterbusch, uses the game of baseball along with
metaphors in his poem as a vehicle to write about a more substantial subject in poetry, the Vietnam
War. His poem, "Behind the Plate", can be simply over–looked to one as just a poem about an
overweight catcher; nonetheless, when closely examined, it has a deeper meaning. Authors Michael
Cocchiarale and Scott Emmert, both agree with the statement that baseball is a great outlet for
further analysis of a more important subject: "Writers have seen sports, particularly baseball, as a
useful vehicle for cultural and epistemological analysis" (Cocchiarale). The poem, "Behind the
Plate", starts off with the line: "Always the dumbest and fattest kid played catcher" (Ritterbusch,
"Behind"); however, Dale Ritterbusch chose to start this poem with that statement for a reason– it
sets a tone for the rest of the poem to have a certain meaning. The fat catcher is known to
specifically represent America in the Vietnam War; the catcher is fat because, well, in history
catchers in baseball are often overweight. Additionally, in general– one who is fat in sports often has
a disadvantage, even in the

What Are The Effects Of The Tet Offensive
The Vietnam War was started when North Vietnam and the Viet Cong started attacking South
Vietnam. They did this to unite Vietnam under communist rule. Because North Vietnam did this,
South Vietnam asked for help from the US and other allies. When we joined the war the Russians
and Chinese joined in also. They were communist countries helping North Vietnam. Jungly terrain
made it hard to move supplies and soldiers, so we bombed Vietnam with pesticides. The pesticide ,
Agent Orange, worked, but it also affected the civilians and killed many of them. Birth defects were
passed down through the survivors and killed many more. The Tet offensive was a surprise attack on
the US forces performed by the Viet Cong. The US forces defeated the Viet Cong,

Tet Offensive Essay
The Tet Offensive played a key role triggering a wave of peak anti–war movements after that.
Moreover, after that event, American media "took an increasingly unfavorable view of U.S. public
policy" . It was remarkable that in the evening broadcast on February 27, 1968, Walter Cronkite
'broke the rule' by giving such comment on CBS evening news: "To say that we are closer to victory
today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists we have been wrong in the past. To
suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired
in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion." At the same time, General
Westmoreland was reported to have requested more than 260,000 additional troops by the New York
Times. All of these events became a catalyst to a public protest. ... Show more content on
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President Johnson declared his intention not to run for the next presidency term. This event was
stated by John Hart, an NBC reporter: "It was as if the normal restraints on human behavior, having
been lifted in Vietnam were slipping dangerously in this country as well. The violence of the war,
which divided the country, was echoed by violence in the streets, which divided the country further."
The Vietnam War was attributed to dividing the country since 1965, when American army forces
was officially involved in Vietnam, and the number of soldiers being sent and lost their lives in the
battle fields grew up dramatically after that. According to statistics, the number of soldiers killed in
the war was 300 . The result from Gallup poll opinion "Americans look back at Vietnam war"
revealed that in 1968, more than half of interviewers thought that the war was a mistake in the

1968 Tet Offensive
"All of a sudden I heard them shooting, then I saw people dropping to the ground. Then I dropped to
the ground," said a victim of the 1970 Kent State shooting (Adams). The Vietnam War was a
controversial war for the United States that was long and costly. The war was the start of communist
North Vietnam against South Vietnam. As an ally of South Vietnam, the US supported them in the
war. American involvement in the war led the communists of the northern part of Vietnam against
the more democratic south. Opposition to the war in the US divided the American public. Many
protests occurred on college campuses a few resulting in multiple injuries and deaths. The Kent
State shooting was a focal point of the anti–war movement. The Kent State protests ... Show more
In 1963, the United States sent in 2,000 military advisors to support the South Vietnamese
government in the war (Digital History). At the beginning of the war, many Americans believed that
defending South Vietnam from communist aggression was in the country's favor, although as the
war continued, that opinion drastically changed ("The Antiwar Movement"). In 1965, President
Lyndon Johnson escalated the war by starting air strikes on North Vietnam. Later on in the war, the
1968 Tet Offensive turned many Americans against the war. This was a large series of attacks
resulting in many South Vietnamese and American casualties (Digital History). President Richard
Nixon served from 1969 to 1974 and when he was inaugurated the nation was deeply divided by the
war and over what was going to happen next. As the war continued more and more Americans grew
impatient over the increasing amount of casualties and escalating costs throughout the war. There
were large gatherings of anti–war protesters that helped bring attention to the public resentment of
the US involvement in the Vietnam War. By the late 1960s, peaceful demonstrations became violent
and the anti–war movement was rapidly growing ("The Antiwar Movement"). Protests across the
country were part of opposition against the military draft and US

The Tet Offensive: An Analysis
In a time after World War II when the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or
the USSR, were competing for political and cultural control of various nations during the Cold War,
communism was beginning to spread. Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, were important areas to
both the United States and the USSR. The United States wanted to prevent communism from
spreading to South Vietnam from North Vietnam, so after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which a
U.S. ship exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats, United States President Lyndon B.
Johnson sent American troops into Vietnam. At the beginning of the United States' involvement in
the war, the press was not very interested in Vietnam. However, after events ... Show more content
A large majority of the news reported only showed pieces of what really happened in battles to make
it seem as though the troops were harming innocent people, when in reality the soldiers were
fighting for their own lives as well as the best interest of the United States. It is the actions of the
reporters and how they interpreted the information for the public that led to many people shifting
their views against the war. In the late 1960's, anti–war movements, such as when nearly 100,000
protesters gathered and marched to the Pentagon, broke out across the country that included a
variety of people of different races. However, most of the founders and participants of the
movements were college students. Alternatively, if newspapers and television news channels did not
send journalists to Vietnam, Americans would not have been shown the horrors of the war and the
manipulated actions of the soldiers by the news companies. Anti–war movements would not have
been created and the United States would not have been as united by a shared opposition of the
involvement in the Vietnam

The Tet Offensive
Many people still ask why America invaded Vietnam yet why it did not win the war, against the
spread of communism. Instead, many U.S. soldiers lost their lives, but they managed to destroy a
country's economy, which was starting to show recovery from the French colonial control. Back in
the late 1940s, American involvement in Vietnam was driven by the Cold War, in an effort to
contain communism, as expressed by the Domino Theory. America's military invasion into Vietnam
came in the 1960s, in an effort to protect the Southern region from the invasion of the communist
North authority. Nevertheless American troops were being overpowered by a peasant Vietnam army
who had the support of Communist China and Soviet Union. Modern Vietnam is still fighting ...
According to a report in the Encyclopedia Britannica, engaging in Vietnam War made the US to
spend about $200 billion while 171,331 South Vietnamese soldiers died in combat between 1965
and 1972. However, these figures are not exact, as little is known of the number of Vietnamese
soldiers and civilians who lost their lives during the war. By 1967, the number of casualties was
15,058 while 109, 527 had been wounded. The overall casualties among the US military officers
were in excess of 55,000. The campaign had an influence on the presidential elections in 1968,
where President Johnson declared that he would not offer himself for reelection. Electorates had
already begun to rally their support behind anti–war candidates. President Nixon managed to
withdraw all the US soldiers from Vietnam to avoid more criticism from the

Tet Offensive History
There is no better way to describe the year 1968 than as important, tumultuous, and just flat out
crazy. The three articles this time around looked at the whole year and outlined different important
events and ideas that came about during this time. I wanted to touch on the Tet offensive, the
different social movements of the time and the role of the media. All of these aspects came together
to form the perfect storm of 1968. The Tet offensive is touched in both "The Doves Ascendant: The
American Antiwar Movement in 1968" and "1968: The End and the Beginning in the United States
and Western Europe". As we learned in class the Tet offensive was a military strategy that caught the
United States' forced off guard on a Vietnamese holiday. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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Student Radicalisms and 1968 in Germany" by Michael A. Schmidtke shows the less peaceful
movements in Germany. Schmidtke shows how the German students were influenced by the
peaceful sit–ins and marches from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in America, but
soon became more violent than many protests in the United States. Overall, the German students
wanted higher education to be reformed, emergency laws to be not become laws, and for the
freedom of speech from the Springer press. Throughout his article, Schmidtke parallels the events in
Germany to what is happening in the United States, but he always points out something that makes
the Germans actions seem harsher. Many of the students in Germany were becoming more educated,
seeing the progression of the world around them, and seeing the err of their elder's ways. Truly, most
of what they were asking for was needed in Germany, but the violence that followed their movement
made it difficult for changes to

Vietnam Essay
Prior to the start of our study of the Vietnam Era, I thought that I knew quite a bit about the Vietnam
War and the overall time period. But after listening to some guest speakers and reading Tim
O'Brien's The Things They Carried, I discovered that I knew hardly anything, and that most of what
I did know was pretty much insignificant. These past weeks were not only extremely educating, but
it was also very interesting. I learned more than I ever thought I would, mostly through the people
that know it best, those who lived through it.
The most important thing I learned about Vietnam and the time period in which it took place, is that
it was so confusing. It seems as if nobody really knew what was going on or ... Show more content
Soldiers were always looking for something to hang on to. They had to forget about their families
and the world they left behind into order to survive. In a place they knew absolutely nothing about,
they were so scared. They were scared of what they saw, but also of what they couldn't see, which
was usually the scariest thing of all. They were scared to make friends, for fear of suffering loss.
They were scared of not making it home. But then again, even after the war was hard. Soldiers kept
on having flashbacks, many became violent. The war changed everyone, and their families had to
pay the price.
The war inspired many of the surviving soldiers to do things. Some wrote books, some wrote poetry,
and some wrote music about their experiences in Vietnam. The war also inspired some people to do
one of the most rewarding things they could possibly do, which is to teach and not necessarily about
Vietnam, but just teaching in general. But those who do decide to teach about their experiences in
Vietnam have the rare opportunity to express themselves, their feelings, and the material they teach
in a way that no other teacher can do. They have the chance to pass on their knowledge in a unique
subject area, where they can it teach better than anybody else possibly could.
So many men died in a war that we should have never been in. And for what? We ended up losing.
Those men died in vain. They

The Tet Offensive Of The Vietnam War
During the night of January 30th 1968 while the southern Vietnamize were celebrating there new
year, the north has other plans. President Lyndon B. Johnson was telling the USA that the war is
almost over and would be leaving soon. The North on the other hand was preparing there last stand
the Tet Offensive. The communist rule in Vietnam would not go out with out a fight they planned air
raids on 40 cities. The key city they wanted to focus on was the city of Saigon, this was the capital
city of the democratic Vietnam. If they could take this city over this would mostly likely mean the
withdrawal of the United States. The Tet offensive was the turning point in the Vietnam war. It is
known as one of the largest military campaigns ever. The Tet offensive took place on the Vietnam
new year, which is January 30th. It started in 1967 and by the end over 14,000 people were killed in
the attacks. The North wanted to launch a massive military attack on the American troops stationed
in the town. On January 30th 1968 the Viet Cong forces attack 7 major cities and 13 cities overall
from the Delta to the DMZ. In Saigon a 19 men Viet Cong suicide squad was able to take over the
U.S embassy and hold it for 6 hours. 1,000 Viet Cong troops were believed to have infiltrated
Saigon. It took a week of 11,000 U.S and south Vietnamese troops to remove them from the city.
This even leads to the longest and bloodiest battle, the battle of Huê. As I said before the battle of
Huê was the

Tet Offensive Analysis
While researching the Tet Offensive, there is a lot of information about Non–Vietnamese communist
and Americans perspectives, and how they were preparing for an attack. However, there are limited
resources out there that talk about the Vietnamese communist and what led them to the Tet
offensive. In the reading the reading "Decision–making Leading to the Tet Offensive (1968)–The
Vietnamese Communist Perspective" Ang Cheng Guan gives readers more insight on the communist
perspective and what their plans were for the Tet Offensive. Guan shares what General Nguyen Chi
Thanh explains "General Nguyen Chi Thanh explained that the strategy involved amassing both
military and political strength to carry out a series of surprise attacks in places where ... Show more
How it leaves its mark is different with each war. With the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive is still
being used as an example in wars after Vietnam and our current war. Two reads that describe how
Tet affected the Americans afterward is "An Old, Old Story" by James S. Robbins and "Decision–
making Leading to the Tet Offensive" by Ang Cheng Guan. Throughout Guans articles it talks about
the Vietnamese Communists plans for the Tet Offensive, however towards the end, Guan states "The
General Offensive–General uprising is a good example of how difficult and complex it was to carry
out Mao's three–stage strategy of war" (353). Notice how Guan uses "good" and "example" he is
letting the readers know that the Tet Offensives also known as General uprising is a good example
of what not to do because it was so complex and difficult. It is important because it allows readers to
know that Guan felt it was not a good strategy for the war. However, Robbins share in his writings
that the Tet Offensive is still affecting us today and even though the Vietnamese communist lost the
Tet Offensive it is still being used by our enemies. "The Tet story line is always lurking when U.S.
forces are engaged against weak, unconventional enemies who lash out under limited and
exceptional circumstances and briefly capture attention of the media" (Robbins50). By Robbins
stating that "the story line is always lurking" Robbins is letting readers know that

Analysis Of Blood In The Hills
Based off glancing at the title alone, the reader is immediately aware of what to expect upon
opening the publication. Blood in the Hills: The Story of Khe Sahn, the Most Savage Fight of the
Vietnam War, written by Robert Maras, with the assistance of Charles W. Sasser, tells the story of
Maras, a Vietnam veteran, and his experiences during the war. From his combat landing on Red
Beach, to his departure from the Demilitarized Zone, also known as the DMZ, Robert Maras
describes in great detail the joys and sorrows of his time in Vietnam. The book also exhibits the
development of the average Marine, and the mental and physical toll the fighting at Khe Sanh takes
on each individual. Throughout the memoir, the "warrior creed of Semper Fidelis" is repeated an
abundance of times, meaning always faithful, and symbolizing the US Marine Corps determination
to fight for their beloved country (Maras 3). This saying was especially influential during the times
Bob Maras was subjected to viewing his comrades perish before him, as he could only hope he
would survive the countless battles in the jungle terrain of Khe Sanh. Blood in the Hills is a
powerful read for those engrossed with not only the corporeal aspect of war, but fascinated in
learning about warfare from a psychological perspective.
Critically speaking, the authors are somewhat qualified to discuss the topic at hand, but Maras, the
protagonist, is by no means a professional historian on the Vietnam War. In fact, the same

The Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive And Counteroffensive
Two nations, both alike in military, battled for the world, to see who would set the scene, for their
political differences result in new violence, leaving the blood of civilians on their hands, now
unclean. During the mid–20th century, communist and capitalist ideas were being spread by two
superpowers, the United States and the USSR. Both nations interfered in multiple different countries
to coerce them to participate in a war that would determine the new political power and ideology of
the world. However, many countries were divided on the issue, resulting in multiple communist and
capitalist revolutions, as well as civil wars. These countries, after receiving economic and military
support from the USA and USSR, went from being mere skirmishes ... Show more content on
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On January 30, 1968, Northern Vietnamese forces invaded South

Negative Effects Of The Tet Offensive
Starting with Walter Cronkite one of the most likely and trusted reporter in America. He said that he
didn't think we could win. The Tet Offensive was the point where Americans understood that we
couldn't win in Vietnam. I don't know whether most–Americans knew then, however a good amount
had heard. There was resistance to the war, yet it was for the most part in view of the war being
improper and unlawful.
Be that as it may, after the Tet Offensive the restriction became rapidly, adding to the individuals
who trusted the war wasn't right for the general population who trusted it was inefficient and
unnecessary to continue battling a war we couldn't win. The pentagon had been stating, the Vietnam
were essentially smashed before Tet. At that

Essay on The Role of Media During the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, Americans were greatly influenced by the extensive media coverage of the
war. Before the 1960's and the intensification of the war, public news coverage of military action
was constrained heavily by the government and was directed by Government policy. The Vietnam
War uniquely altered the perception of war in the eyes of American citizens by bringing the war into
their homes. The Vietnam War was the first U.S uncensored war resulting in the release of graphic
images and unaltered accounts of horrific events that helped to change public opinion of the war like
nothing it had ever been. This depiction by the media led to a separation between the United States
government and the press; much of what was reported flouted ... Show more content on
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After a disastrous battle in 1963, in which the U.S. had lost numerous helicopters and their aboard
crew, the press identified strategic blunder and saw "reluctant Vietnamese infantrymen" as the
reason for the failed mission. The U.S. government tried to depict the mission as successful,
indicating a major point of divide between the government and the media, the media turned to "the
word of angry South Vietnamese officials, angry U.S advisors, and hostile American pilots who
risked their lives daily without recognition" as their basis of evidence regarding the incident and
incidents to come. Another question was left to be raised, where were these televised materials
coming from? In accordance with the actual content; much of what was recorded was done by the
US Army photographic agency beginning after much controversy caused by the filming of burning
the village of Cam Ne by American troops.
Furthermore, Americans placed trust in the presence of pictures, for they could "see it happen."
Because it was a visual medium, television depicted the raw horror of war and primarily focused on
the negative. In addition, media recognized the potential for television to exploit the war's
sensationalism and to capture the minds of their viewers. The Tet Offensive was noted by many
intellectuals

Tet Offensive Advantages
The Tet offensive was an attack of North Vietnamese on the South Vietnamese. The North
Vietnamese took forty–one cities including the capital. After that, the United States and South
Vietnamese took back these cities in twenty–four days. Although the North Vietnamese was
defeated in that offensive, it considered a victory for them because of the outcome of the offensive
on the American government. There were a political, social, and military outcomes of the Tet
offensive. Politically, it ended Lyndon Johnson's political career. He lost in Democratic candidate
campaigning. In the election of 1968, the Republican Richard Nixon won. One of the important
reason for the Democratic losing was the Tet offensive. Socially, the Tet offensive raised

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