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General Giap believed that the Tet offensive would cause the citizens and the Army of South Vietnam to lose confidence in their government.

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To allow the reduction in the number of US ground troops by shifting most of the miltary operations to the South Vietnamese Army.

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Where did the tet offensive occur?

Vietnam


Was the tet offensive was a major attack in the Korean war?

No , the Tet Offensive was during the Vietnam War .


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What is the main reason why the TET Offensive was a major turning point?

The Tet offensive by North Vietnam used the VC (Viet Cong) as it's primary offensive weapon by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and in so doing the VC were never as potent as an opposing field force to Allied combatants ,After Tet the NVA shouldered the burden of conducting offensive operations against the Allies : the Vietnam War became a war conducted/fought by conventional armies in contrast to a guerrilla war .


What event of the Vietnam War brought down Johnson's presidency?

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What was one effect of Tet Offensive?

Quite apart from throwing suspicion upon the competence of U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders to assess North Vietnamese war-making capacity, the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War had this significant effect: it convinced numerous leaders and observers in the West that the Vietnam War was far from over. With war protests already growing in the United States yet now increasing, the effect of the Tet Offensive, despite that it was a military defeat, amounted to a diplomatic-political "win" for North Vietnam.