tet offensiveThe 1968 offensive launched by the South Vietnamese was called the Tet offensive. It was called the Tet Offensive because it began in the early morning of 31 January 1968, which is Tết Nguyên Đán, the first day of the year on a traditional lunar calendar and the most significant Vietnamese holiday.
The Tet Offensive .
The offensive was intended to spark an insurrection among South Vietnamese civilians and military forces, destroying the US-backed regime in Saigon and isolating the US main military presence concentrated to the north, thus forcing the Johnson administration to seek a negotiated end to the war. The offensive utterly failed to prompt an uprising, although government supporters were methodically massacred in a telling use of terrorism. With the exception of the battles of Saigon and Hué, US and South Vietnamese forces quickly defeated the attacks and Vietcong units indigenous to South Vietnam were indeed decimated. It was an offensive from January 30th to 23 September 1968. The North Vietnamese government had planed the offensive for two years and the general idea was that the populous of the south would rise up and join the communist forces. The offensive included 3 phases (originally only one) the first phase started on January 30th (by accident a day earlier) in the five provincial capitals in II Corps and Da Nang, in I Corps Area of Operation. The rest of the offense began on January 31st in most major areas in South Vietnam.
The TET offensive of 1968 is considered by many to have been the beginning of the US's end of involvement in Vietnam.
The Viet Cong (Southern Communists) survived by using stealth. They surfaced during the 1968 TET offensive, and as an effective fighting force, were nearly eliminated.
Hue City .
Tet is the Vietnamese New Year, and until 1968 they celebrated rather than fought. In 1968, the Vietnamese soldiers went on the offensive on Tet taking our soldiers by surprise and in the process, cutting off some of our outlying posts, and killing a large number of our soldiers. In 1968 alone, the U.S. lost nearly 17,000 and the Tet offensive had set the tone for the year.
Pancake Bay Provincial Park was created in 1968.
No. The TET offensive of 1968 was designed to attack every provincial capital in South Vietnam to incite a general uprising of the South Vietnamese people against their government. The tactic failed to produce those results, but the street fighting in the old imperial capital of Hue (pronounced 'way') lasted just over three weeks, giving the perception to the American television audience that the North Vietnamese were winning. It was the 'beginning of the end' for the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
The TET offensive commenced on 31 Jan 1968.
A Capital was created in 1968.
May Offensive happened in 1968.
Boeing Capital was created in 1968.
tet offensiveThe 1968 offensive launched by the South Vietnamese was called the Tet offensive. It was called the Tet Offensive because it began in the early morning of 31 January 1968, which is Tết Nguyên Đán, the first day of the year on a traditional lunar calendar and the most significant Vietnamese holiday.
We are winning.
1968
Court Square Capital Partners was created in 1968.