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Oct 29, 2009 · The Tet Offensive of 1968 was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks against more than 100 cities and outposts in U.S.-supported South Vietnam.
1968 Tet offensive . The offensive itself, an all-out effort by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces to overrun the major cities of South Vietnam, marked the turning point of the Vietnam...
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Jan 29, 2018 · In 1968, when U.S. officials were claiming the Vietnam War was nearly won, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched a devastating attack during the Tet holiday. It was a turning point in the...
The Tet Offensive of 1968 proved to be the turning point of the Vietnam War and its effects were far-reaching. It changed the entire way that the United States approached the war: before the Tet Offensive the U.S. objective in Vietnam was to win the war; after the Tet Offensive, the U.S. objective shifted toward finding a face-saving way to get ...
The Tet Offensive comprised a series of attacks carried out over several weeks by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces across South Vietnam, beginning shortly after midnight on January 30, 1968. The Vietnamese were celebrating the Lunar New Year, or Tet holiday, at that time, from which the offensive gets its name.
On January 30, 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) launched a series of attacks across South Vietnam against key cities, district and provincial capitals, hamlets, every major American base, and the U.S. embassy.
On January 31, 1968, at the beginning of the traditional New Year festival of Tet, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong launched an all-out offensive. From Vietnam Perspective (1985), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
