notes background
notes
Tet offensive
- Originally a French colony
- in WWII Japan attacked a took control of this area
- Ho Chi Minh started a communist revoutlion, and resisted the Japanese
- gain lots of support from pushing Japan out
- after WWII French comes in to take land back agan
- but Ho Chi Minh leads Vietnam pushing France out of Vietnam
- Vietnam is broken in two different contires North and South
- North communist
- South democratic
- America supports the South
- CIA puts Diem in charge of South Vietnam
- Viet Cong makes civil war in South Vietnam
- North Vietnam does not like divided then attacks the south
notes
- Kennedy increased troops in 1962 but does not want war
- but after his assination the vice president sends combate troops to Vietnam
- fake attack from North Vietnam then starts war
- The Ho Chi Minh trail made under ground trail into Laos then into South Veitnam
Tet offensive
- Offensive launched an attack across the entire contry
- during the Tet day which is a holiday
- media gets photos and videos of war and the American people freak out agent it
- media makes America look bad