The Tet Offensive, took place from the spring of 1967 to the early beginning of 1968. It was launched at that time by the Viet Cong and had caused a significant escalation in the intensity of the Vietnamese War. There are many different viewpoints relating to the Tet Offensive about its aims and origins, which is mainly due to the absence of official documents that support these aims. Although the Tet Offensive was one of the significant tactical successes for the United States and the South Vietnamese
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centres throughout South Vietnam. The name of the offensive comes from the Tet holiday, the Vietnamese New Year. The decision to launch the offensive was the
late January from 1968, the TET offensive had marked a major turning point in the media coverage of the war. Even though the offensive was a major failure was a massive failure for North Vietnam, what the media told was a contrasting story. While focusing on a few unfavourable combat actions such as the battle of hue or the Viet’s Cong attack on the U.S embassy, the media missed the winning story of the war. As a consequence, the public misled by the war found the offensive to be a triumph for the communists
Hubert Humphrey, a Democratic candidate in the 1968 presidential election, said before his decision to run, “ ...terrible, wrenching events are just over the horizon. I do not know what they are. But, if I run, I sense I will be engulfed by them” ( Van Dyk n.pag.). Once Humphrey joined the race, his words proved to be true and he was engulfed in chaos within the Democratic Party: President Johnson's decision to drop out of the race, Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the riots during the National Convention