Tet Offensive

Pow 1 The American intervention in Vietnam began in 1963 with the intent of stopping South Vietnamese from falling into Communist hands. In August of that year, Lyndon Johnson, who had taken over the American presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy ordered the first air strikes on North Vietnamese. Six months later, the “Rolling Thunder” air campaign began. In this campaign alone, more bombs were dropped than in all of World War II. The president …showed first 75 words of 1530 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1530 total…the war was understood, “No event in American history is more misunderstood that the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.” (Statistics about the Vietnam War). Clearly, the South Vietnamese and the American people struggled for justice and equity through out the Vietnam War and especially during the Tet Offensive.