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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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The Tet Offensive: A Concise History
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Tet Offensive: A Concise History by James...the events and meaning of Tet. It is common to blame the media for misrepresenting the offensive and turning American public...decide for themselves. The Tet Offensive: A Concise History...
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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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 "Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario)")
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Vietnam echoes still haunt U.S.; A Tet Offensive situation in Iraq could have big impact on the U.S. election season.(OPINIONS)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 2/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...Vietnam -- until the Tet Offensive shattered their illusions...Paradoxically, the Tet Offensive was a military...Iraqi version of the Tet Offensive, it would be defeated...both legs during the 1968 Tet Offensive. A repeat of...
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A mini-Tet offensive ?(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/16/2004; 700+ words
; ...Any seasoned reporter covering the Tet offensive in Vietnam 36 years ago is well over...collapses, as it did following the Tet offensive that began on the eve of...breaking a previously agreed truce for Tet festivities, master strategist Gen...
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The Tet Offensive 1968.
Magazine article from: FA Journal; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Part V: The Hot War, 1968, The Tet Offensive" of a monograph about the role of...value-effect of artillery in the Tet offensive and techniques used in urban...activity of late 1967 was a prelude to Tet 1968. A high-level prisoner later...
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REMEMBERING THE TET OFFENSIVE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/29/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Republic of South Vietnam. It was Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year...caught by surprise. Before the offensive was over, two months later...ebb. Twenty years later, the Tet offensive can be seen as one...of nonsense written about how Tet was actually a great defeat...
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The Tet Offensive: A Concise History.
Magazine article from: Parameters; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. By James H. Willbanks...that Hanoi was planning a nationwide offensive. The ambitious plans revealed in captured...is room for yet another book on the Tet Offensive. When one examines a typical bibliography...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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IRAQ FIGHT MIRRORS TET OFFENSIVE.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...seems like the jihadist equivalent of the Tet offensive. For those of you too young to remember, the Tet offensive was the series of attacks undertaken...Viet Cong and Hanoi were badly mauled during Tet, they delivered, through the media, such...
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 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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VIETNAM VETS REMEMBER TET OFFENSIVE ... MEMBERSHIP DRIVE: AN EVENT AT THE AIR CLASSICS MUSEUM COMBINES MEMORIES WITH THE FUTURE
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 2/1/1998; 700+ words
; ...weekend. All around Leininger, the Tet Offensive, often called the turning point of...that in Spring, 1968, right after Tet, we won." Harton said. "The war...advances made by the NVA during the Tet Offensive were eradicated by American...
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Tet Offensive
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Tet Offensive (1968), a major turning point in the Vietnam...S. forces from the cities. During the Tet (lunar new year) holiday of early 1968...fighting to secure the city. The impact of Tet remains difficult to assess. The North Vietnamese...
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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
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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Vietnam War
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...surprise North Vietnamese-Viet Cong led Tet Offensive in January 1968, the U.S. Military...documentary then charged that the Tet Offensive might have been less surprising...and military experts consider the Tet Offensive to be the war's final...
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