The Tet Offensive

During his time in Vietnam, he fought numerous battles and, but one of the most important battles he fought in was the Tet Counteroffensive after the Tet offensive (Fattore 1). The Tet Offensive and Counteroffensive were the climactic points of the war that turned America’s hope away from an American victory, and sent troops like Sergeant Fred Fattore into reinvigorated battles against Northern Vietnam, inducing

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

during the attacks of the Tet Offensive. Technically, the Tet Offensive was a battlefield win for U.S. troops, however, it resulted

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

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

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

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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 Tet Offensive was the single largest military campaign executed during the Vietnam War. Not only was it the largest, it was considered the most important. Named after the Vietnamese New Year, this epic military assault was launched on January 30, 1968, by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam forces against the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. The offensive was created by North Vietnamese military leaders and designed to deliver surprise attacks in South Vietnam, subsequently

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 influence the public through television and magazines, people began to doubt