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Was Tet Offensive main reason for US withdrawal from Vietnam?
-US began policy of withdrawal after 3 years of conflict & 18 years of involvement
-Tet offensive was a main reason for US withdrawal
-Cost of the war + Opposition to the war also contributed to US withdrawing
TET OFFENSIVE COST OPPOSITION
P= Tet offensive was an P= The cost of the war P= The opposition of the
integral moment in VW was most important for war was a factor which
E= 30th Jan 1968 Hanoi US’ withdrawal played a role in US
broke the Vietnamese E= 2 sides of the cost of withdrawal
new year celebration day- the war-> financial and E= Initially the media was
previously was an human cost. supportive of the war-
unofficial ceasefire day -Financial cost-> how 75% of people in US
-Hanoi used this day to much damage the war wanted US to stay in the
launch an unprecedented done to US’ economy-> war> after 1968 the
surprise attack of over estimated to cost US media quickly shifted to
100 coordinated attacks $6million a day and some opposing the war only
all over SV-> 85,000 economists estimate 30% wanted US to remain
PAVN & VC attacked cities $3billion a year-> led to -Tet offensive brought a
& military places in the US borrowing money & lot of attention to the US
South + initially took landing in debt- 1965 FG as the media portrayed it
control of US embassy in deficit was $1.6billion but as a military failure from
Saigon by 1968 deficit rose to the US
-Although VC suffered $25.3billion-> increase in -US govt had been
huge losses of life debt led to inflation claiming that they were
(58,000) the attack was - price rising for products- winning the war, but the
successful in some > living standards horrific TV pictures
aspects as it shook the declined as people could showed otherwise-> led
confidence of US officials not afford the new prices to anti-war protests
and soldiers-> decline in of things= increase because the US public
military performance opposition to the war & believed they had been
E= Tet offensive was very pressure on govt to misled
significant because a year withdraw as people’s -Walter Cronkite (most
before General quality of life decline respected TV journalist) in
Westmoreland addressed -Human cost-> how many 1968 travelled to Vietnam
the public in Nov 1967 lives were affected due to and when he arrived, he
stating that the end of the war. Average was shocked and
the war was near-> deathrate was around exclaimed “I thought we
people believed the fight 300 a week & many more was winning the war”-
against Vietnam was injured Cronkite was previously
coming to an end but the -In Tet Offensive 4000 US very supportive of the
Tet offensive showed the soldiers were killed and war but once he saw the
war was far from over-> many more were injured- 1st hand destruction it
made US public feel > put pressure on US to swayed his opinion
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