The Tet Offensive In The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a war between North and South Vietnam, and was in response to the Cold War. The United States entered the war after the Gulf Tonkin attack. The U.S. would fail to accomplish their goal of stopping the spread of communism to Vietnam. The United States also sent many troops overseas to fight and lost public support. The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began with the Gulf of Tonkin attack. The Maddox destroyer reported torpedo fire from Vietnamese boats in Gulf of Tonkin on August 7, 1964. They then reported fire again two days later, but these reports were later speculated to be false. These attacks, however, gave the President Lyndon Johnson a reason to charge North Vietnam with “open aggression on the high seas.” Congress

The Vietnam War was a way for the United States and the Soviet Union to go to war with each other indirectly in order to prevent nuclear war. The United States actually fought in the Vietnam war, but the Soviet Union did not. They provided funds and weapons to North Vietnam. The U.S. troops in Vietnam went from 900 to 11,000 from 1960 to 1962, and as the number of Viet Cong troops increased, so did the number of U.S. troops. The Tet Offensive was a series of attacks against South Vietnam. On the day of the Vietnamese new year, North Vietnam attacked 36 major towns and cities in South Vietnam. There were tremendous losses on both sides. This attack showed either faction that the war would not end easily. After this attack, the United States started pulling troops out of Vietnam. In early 1973, there was a ceasefire arranged after peace talks. On March 29, 1973, all of the U.S. troops had been evacuated from Vietnam. A few months after the ceasefire had been declared, fighting between North and South Vietnam started again. Two years later, The Northern Vietnamese invaded Saigon and the South Vietnamese surrendered, and Vietnam was then a communist