Offensive

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

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also know as the 100 Days Offensive, was the part of the grand Allied offensive in 1918 at the end of WW1. This battle involved 1.2 million American soldiers. The American’s objective was to break through the Hindenburg Line, which covered the length of the entire western front. The offensive consisted of a three-sided attack on the German’s Western Front. The BEF and the French Army were to engage the German lines at Flanders, while the British forces would take on the

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

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 physical and mental trauma. The increasing number of troops and military efforts involved with Vietnam and the seemingly optimistic reports reported by the government were the primary factors that caused the Tet Offensive and Counteroffensive

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

Tet Offensive was utilized in 1968, where both military and civilian commands from the Viet Cong and North Vietnam planned series of night attacks in various cities in South Vietnam. North Vietnam and their allies initiated the Tet Offensive to force the US to enter into negotiation of stopping the bombing campaign. The Tet Offensive shocked the US troops, as well as the South Vietnamese army, causing them to lose their

“Defending the Right to be Offensive” is an article from the Globe and Mail archives. It summarizes the conflict between a group of Trent professors and the general belief that the environment at an university should be peaceful. The professors are protesting against the zero tolerance of harassment and discrimination policy, which appears to be absurd in the beginning. However, the author argues that the professors are “true revolutionaries”, and his thesis is in favour of the Trent faculty, therefore

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

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

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a priority to protect all American citizens from offensive speech/hate crime because it is believed its propagators are responsible for brainwashing Americans into terrorism acts.  All and sundry have the right to free speech as stated in the First Amendment of the Constitution “Congress shall make no law respecting…or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. (Lovett, 2013 )” It is on this basis that the citizens of America are able to keep their government