Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point in the Vietnam war?
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- Why was the Tet Offensive a turning point in the Vietnam war?
- President Johnson
- Wouldn't go for reelection
- Was hated
- Reduced bombing campaigns like Rolling Thunder Bird
- 1968 begins peace conference with Vietcong
- American Public Opinion
- Disillusioned
- Spending $20 billion a year
- Killing people and destroying towns
- Loosing
- Spending $20 billion a year
- Disillusioned
- Pressure on USSR/China
- 1970- SALT(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) with USSR
- Nixon invited to China 1972
- Wanted both countries to persuade North Vietnam to end the war
- Vietnamistion
- Build up of local forces and leave them when they are as good as the Americans
- Did it with South Vietnamese Army
- Between April 1969 and end of 1971 400,000 US troops left Vietnam
- Outcome in military terms
- Held in Saigon had to regain control room by room
- Communists lost 10,000 men
- US spent $20 billion mostly on artillery and aircrafts
- Peace conference in Paris 1973, January
- Le De Tho, Nixon and South Vietnamese president Thiem
- 1) immediate cease fire
- 2) Release of all POW in 60 days
- 3) withdrawal of US troops
- 4) Full accounting of men missing in action
- 5) Self determination for South Vietnam
- What did the Vietcong do at Tet?
- 1968 Tet New Year Vietcong attacked over 100 cities
- US forces had to fight room by room to regain control
- US embassy was attacked and took 2 days to regain control
- Media
- Started questioning the war in 1967
- Disillusion they would win
- Walter Crokite asked 'what the hell is going on
- President Johnson
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