The Tet Offensive

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The Tet Offensive The Vietnam War was a conflict between South Vietnam and the Vietcong and North Vietnam. The war began in 1954 and ended in 1975. The Vietnam War was "primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam" (bleep). The Vietnam War began soon after the Geneva Conference divided Vietnam into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam, …

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…many American lives were lost. There was a total of about fourteen thousand deaths accounted for in 1968, more than any other year of the Vietnam War. " . . . the Tet Offensive made the U.S. news media, and the U.S. public. Much less enthusiastic about the war than they had been previously" (Moise something...). Overall the Tet Offensive was considered to be a Communist victory, because it reduced the American will to fight the Vietnam War.