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Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive (29 January–25 February 1968) An offensive launched in the
VIETNAM WAR by Vietcong and regular North Vietnamese army units against US and South Vietnamese forces. In a surprise attack timed to coincide with the first day of the Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) holiday, North Vietnamese forces under General
GIAP took the war from the countryside to the cities of South Vietnam. After initial successes, the attackers were repulsed with heavy losses on both sides, but the offensive seriously damaged South Vietnamese morale and shook US confidence in their ability to win the war and brought them to the conference table in Paris in 1969. This led to the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 and the withdrawal of US forces from Indochina.
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SEN. REID: TET OFFENSIVE FOREVER ALTERED THE COURSE OF THE VIETNAM WAR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...S. forces during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam: Below are...original attacks, the Tet Offensive forever altered the course...Vietnam War. Although the Tet Offensive would serve...defending the South during the Tet Offensive. To all of those valiant...
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Tet 1968, the Miltary Offensive; Tet '94, the Economic Offensive
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 2/10/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...during the celebration of the Tet Lunar New Year that would be...the start of a Communist-led offensive across South Vietnam that brought...in the history books as the "Tet Offensive." Then, the festive...26 years later, the 1994 Tet Lunar New Year that begins today...
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No similarty between Tet offensive, Iraq: White house.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 10/20/2006; 510 words
; No similarty between Tet offensive, Iraq: White house Washington, Oct...House today said the analogy of the Tet offensive in Vietnam war was not being...querries on the subject. "... It (the Tet Offensive) was successful from a propaganda...
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Commentary: Remember Tet offensive.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 7/31/2003; 700+ words
; ...International via COMTEX) "Remember the Tet Offensive" is the mantra I have been repeating...the benefit of those who remember Tet only fitfully or not at all, it was...s army. Among the many aspects of Tet were that South Vietnam's population...
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The Tet Offensive: Politics, War, and Public Opinion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 513 words
; 0742544869 The Tet Offensive; politics, war, and public opinion...that was launched during the holiday of Tet in 1968 is often portrayed as a decisive...conventional explanation of the impact of Tet Offensive on the course of the Vietnam...
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McCain Fears 'Tet Offensive' in Iraq
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/12/2007; 507 words
; ...McCain said Monday he fears an offensive by Iraqi insurgents similar to the Tet offensive by the Viet Cong that...possibility of a, quote, 'Tet Offensive.' You know, some...public opinion the way that the Tet Offensive did," the Arizona...
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Tet Offensive of 1968 looms over Iraq of 2006.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...moment during the Vietnam War _ the Tet Offensive of 1968 _ when many Americans concluded...Iraq. In essence, 2006 has been Tet Revisited in Iraq - where Americans...in Vietnam continued long after the Tet reality. It is unclear whether the...
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Vietnam Veterans Recall Fear, Pain of 20 Years Ago When Tet Offensive Began
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Tet offensive, remembers the moment the longest...opportunity" during the two-month Tet offensive in early 1968 was the proudest...the lunar New Year holiday known as Tet. When the offensive ended on March...
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Tet Offensive
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/2/1999; 487 words
; ...street. Also reported on this page were the casualties suffered by American troops since the start of North Vietnam's Tet offensive several days earlier (232 killed, 929 wounded), and a warning to Hanoi by President Lyndon Johnson (top left...
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Remembering the Tet Offensive As Troops Ship Out for a U.S. Attack on Iraq.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 12/22/2004; ; 563 words
; Remembering the Tet Offensive As Troops Ship Out for a U.S. Attack on Iraq for Roger C. Frank A fighter jet etches ink white as sperm on the stark sky while...
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Tet offensive
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tet offensive 1968, a series of crucial battles in the Vietnam...the Vietnamese Communists launched a major offensive throughout South Vietnam. It took weeks for...been won. Bibliography: See J. J. Wirtz, Tet Offensive (1992).
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Tet Offensive
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Tet Offensive (29 January–25 February 1968) An offensive launched in the VIETNAM WAR by Vietcong and regular North...surprise attack timed to coincide with the first day of the Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) holiday, North Vietnamese...
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Tet
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Tet the Vietnamese lunar New Year. In the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive was launched in January–February 1968 by...Vietnamese army. Timed to coincide with the first day of the Tet, it was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities...
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Saigon, Battle for
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...South Vietnam launched the massive Tet Offensive . Timed to exploit reduced South Vietnamese...New Year celebrations (“Tet”), the offensive was...M ., just as the last volley of Tet celebratory fireworks was set off...
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Westmoreland, William C.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...Communist attack during the 1968 Tet Offensive . Critics cited this attack as reason...forces would have to enter the war as offensive units, Secretary of Defense Robert...Vietnam. Following the surprise Tet Offensive (1968) by the Communists...
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