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Q) In what ways was the Tet offensive a turning point in the vietnam war ?

by: Mahdi Hassani,Lev Mizikovsky,Bernard Ruiz Picasso,Franck Muller

The North Vietnamese launched attacks in the night of 30 January in the Corps Tactical zones of South Vietnam. more than 80,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops attacked more than 100 towns and cities and plethora of fighting took place in the city of Hue, located on the Perfume River around 50 miles south of the border between North and South Vietnam. 3

North vietnamese attacks surprised americans and south vietnamese in february 1968. At that time, the americans were wondering if they should replace their troops in order to win the war of position ( exhausting the north vietnamese communist forces). On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh already prepared his attack and had for objective to strongly damage the american military camps.

Ho chi minh in a short poem published in early 1968 mark Tet. The vietnamese lunar year was the chance communist leaders took launch an offensive throughout south vietnam aimed to overthrow saigon government and bring the NLF. In early 1968, the North Vietnamese military commander General Vo Nguyen Giap chose January 31 as the occasion for a coordinated offensive of surprise attacks aimed at breaking the stalemate in Vietnam. Giap believed that the attacks would cause Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces to collapse and foment discontent and rebellion among the South Vietnamese population.

On the early morning of January 30, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked 13 cities in central South Vietnam, just as many families began their observances of the lunar new year. Twenty-four hours later, PAVN and Viet Cong forces struck a number of other targets throughout South Vietnam, including cities, towns, government buildings and U.S. or ARVN military bases throughout South Vietnam, in a total of more than 120 attacks.

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