suprise attack- tet offensive

Surprise Attack Shortly after midnight on January 31, 1968, nineteen members of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF)--better known to the world as Vietcong (VC)--secretly assembled in a garage about five blocks away from the American Embassy in Saigon. They sat huddled together in silence, cleaning and oiling their weapons, listening to final instructions from their leaders on their forthcoming commando-style operation. Tet is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. It is celebrated on the …

…s belt”. The VC readily agreed to a cease-fire over the Tet holidays, and then attacked the allied forces when they agreed that they wouldn’t. This is what sparked such hatred. Distrust was formed between the allies and the VC forces. The Tet Offensive of 1968 not only served as a huge win for the allies, but also served as a historical event, and ended one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever known.