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.
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