https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3 By Nitya Sethi and Lauren May en-us 2018-12-02 22:14:40 UTC 2025-07-12 12:50:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230474 Tet is the most important holiday on the Vietnamese calendar as it celebrates the lunar new year. During the Vietnam War between South Vietnam and North Vietnam it was such an occasion that there was an informal truce held for the holiday.]]> 2018-12-02 22:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230474 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230703 Tet was an offensive launched by the communists against urban South Vietnamese and American targets in 1968. It's major significance lay in the impact it had on US public opinion, strengthening opposition to the war.]]> 2018-12-02 22:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230703 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230776 To create an image in the minds of the American public, and administration, that the Americans were losing.]]> 2018-12-02 22:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310230776 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231064 The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. ]]> 2018-12-02 22:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231064 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231258 Rioting during the Vietnam War]]> 2018-12-02 22:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231258 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231361 There were over 50,000 casualties and deaths from The Tet Offensive]]> 2018-12-02 22:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231361 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231437 30th January 1968 – 23rd September 1968]]> 2018-12-02 22:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231437 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231570 Tet was decidedly an Allied victory, but psychologically and politically, it was a disaster. The offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, but the size and scope of the communist attacks had caught the American and South Vietnamese allies completely by surprise.]]> 2018-12-02 22:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231570 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231847 2018-12-02 22:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310231847 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232444 2018-12-02 22:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232444 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232461 2018-12-02 22:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232461 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232748 This photograph highlights civilians both old and young fleeing the Tet offensive fighting in Hue of 1968. This shows how some managed to reach the south shore of the Perfume River despite this blown bridge.]]> 2018-12-02 22:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/310232748 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216045 During the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong forces infiltrated Hue city. The communist troops rounded up and executed some 2,800 civilians. The image photographs the remains of the civilians which had began to be discovered in multiple mass graves after two months of battle. ]]> 2018-12-11 00:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216045 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216337 The below image demonstrates the remains of Cholon in Saigon, Vietnam, after South Vietnamese army troops burned the small town in an effort to flush out any Viet Cong that remained after the Tet offensive in late January. In the photograph you can see  Rubble and the remains of the barbed wire that line the streets.]]> 2018-12-11 00:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216337 laurenmartha_may https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216886 This document is a CIA Analysis of the Tet Offensive, written on the 2nd December 1968. The analyst surmised that the Tet attacks were a military failure but a psychological victory for the Vietnamese Communists]]> 2018-12-11 00:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313216886 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217086 The image shows Australian soldiers of the 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, wearing American helmets and flak jackets as they stand guard outside the Hotel Canberra in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. As seen in the image the building was fortified and guarded because the Viet Cong specifically targeting urban establishments used by the Americans and their allies. ]]> 2018-12-11 00:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217086 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217510 2018-12-11 00:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217510 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217520 2018-12-11 00:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217520 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217521 2018-12-11 00:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217521 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217523 2018-12-11 00:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217523 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217524 2018-12-11 00:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217524 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217531 2018-12-11 00:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217531 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217532 2018-12-11 00:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313217532 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313220138 Bomb testing using light at night to detect Viet Cong activity during the Tet offensive. Ninh Hoa, Vietnam. 1968.]]> 2018-12-11 00:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313220138 nsethi15 https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313222067 2018-12-11 01:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/laurenmartha_may/mghvcabv0bk3/wish/313222067