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The Tet Offensive [17] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on January 30, 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and ...
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- Frederick Weyand
Frederick Carlton Weyand (September 15, 1916 – February 10,...
- Phase III Offensive
Phase III of the Tet offensive of 1968 (also known as the...
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- Tet Offensive Attack on Us Embassy
- What Was The Tet Offensive?
- Khe Sanh Attacked
- Tet Offensive Begins
- The Battle of Hue
- Impact of The Tet Offensive
- Antiwar Movement Grows
- Sources
As the celebration of the lunar new year, the Tet holiday is the most important holiday on the Vietnamese calendar. In previous years, the holiday had been the occasion for an informal truce in the Vietnam Warbetween South Vietnam and North Vietnam (and their communist allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong). In early 1968, however, the North Vietn...
In preparation for the planned offensive, Giap and his troops in the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a series of attacks in the fall of 1967 on isolated American garrisons in the highlands of central Vietnam and along the Laotian and Cambodian frontiers. On January 21, 1968, PAVN forces began a massive artillery bombardment of the U.S. Mar...
On the early morning of January 30, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked 13 cities in central South Vietnam, just as many families began their observances of the lunar new year. Twenty-four hours later, PAVN and Viet Cong forces struck a number of other targets throughout South Vietnam, including cities, towns, government buildings and U.S. or ARVN mili...
Particularly intense fighting took place in the city of Hue, located on the Perfume River some 50 miles south of the border between North and South Vietnam. The Battle of Hue would rage for more than three weeks after PAVN and Viet Cong forces burst into the city on January 31, easily overwhelming the government forces there and taking control of t...
Despite its heavy casualty toll, and its failure to inspire widespread rebellion among the South Vietnamese, the Tet Offensive proved to be a strategic success for the North Vietnamese. Before Tet, Westmoreland and other representatives of the Johnson administration had been claiming that the end of the war was in sight; now, it was clear that a lo...
As antiwar sentiment and Vietnam War protests on the home front gathered strength, some of Johnson’s advisers in the White House that had supported past military buildup in Vietnam (including soon-to-be Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford) now argued for scaling back U.S. involvement. On March 31, a beleaguered President Johnson declared that he wa...
Military Victory But Political Defeat: The Tet Offensive 50 Years Later. NPR. U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968. U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Jan 30, 1968 CE: Tet Offensive. National Geographic. Tet Offensive at Fifty. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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47 captured [3] The attacks on Biên Hòa, Bien Hoa Air Base and Long Binh Post, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 2 February 1968. The attacks by Vietcong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces were one of several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive.
- 31 January-2 February 1968
- US/South Vietnamese victory
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that started on 30 January 1968. It was fought by the communist forces of the Viet Cong in South Vietnam, which were aided by North Vietnam, against the South Vietnamese government, aided by the United States and other allies. Its purpose was to surprise the enemy with attacks ...
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- Hoàng Văn Thái
The Tet Offensive was a catastrophic military failure for the communists. Historians estimate as many as 50,000 communist troops died in the effort to gain control of the southern part of the country. The South Vietnamese and American losses totaled a fraction of that number. Although a military loss, the Tet Offensive was a stunning propaganda ...
The Tet Offensive (1968)In late 1967 and early 1968, after three years of bloody war, the U.S. government repeatedly told the American public that the U.S. military was on the verge of victory in Vietnam. But on January 30, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong guerrillas (small groups of fighters who launch surprise attacks ...
