Modern Era · Southeast Asia · War
1968
Tet Offensive stuns America
January 30, 1968
On the Vietnamese lunar new year, eighty-five thousand Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops attacked cities and bases across South Vietnam, including the US embassy in Saigon. Militarily they were pushed back; politically they won the war. Americans watching television concluded the generals had been lying about the light at the end of the tunnel.
In context
Also in 1968 (8 other events on record)
- Martin Luther King assassinated · North America · Politics
- Soviet tanks crush Prague Spring · Europe · Politics
- My Lai massacre · Southeast Asia · War
- Paris erupts in May 1968 · Europe · Politics
- RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics
- Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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