https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi en-us 2017-06-01 12:56:28 UTC 2023-03-02 19:54:08 UTC hello@padlet.com hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174803536 In late January, 1968,  North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault. The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.]]> 2017-06-01 12:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174803536 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174804182 2017-06-01 13:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174804182 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174815665 More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians. By 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict]]> 2017-06-01 13:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174815665 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174815817 2017-06-01 13:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174815817 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848069 The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s),]]> 2017-06-01 16:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848069 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848155 2017-06-01 16:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848155 hughes_ba https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848359 after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.]]> 2017-06-01 16:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hughes_ba/g5hmlpeynhgi/wish/174848359