The Vietnam War was called the the first _____

The purpose of the wide-scale offensive by the Hanoi Politburo was to trigger political instability, in a belief that mass armed assault on urban centers would trigger defections and rebellions. The name is the truncated version of the Lunar New Year festival name in Vietnamese, Tết Nguyên Đán, with the offense chosen during a holiday period as most ARVN personnel were on leave. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a sneak attack on January 30, 1968, against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies. The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Trần Văn Trà reports (Phase One and Two):Ĭivilian: 14,300 killed, 24,000 wounded, and 630,000 refugees and South Vietnam tactical victory, North Vietnam and Viet Cong political and strategic victory (see aftermath for details and long-term consequences)ġ23 aircraft destroyed, 214 heavily damaged and 215 medium damaged The intentional destruction of agriculture and nature, which robbed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese of their livelihoods, would become the origin of a new term: Ecocide – The destruction or extinction of an ecosystem.South Vietnam 11°N 107☎ / 11°N 107☎ / 11 107 Crops were sprayed with the aim of demoralising the enemy, and the jungle was to be stripped to the bones, so the Vietnamese communists no longer had a place to hide.

Agent Orange was classified as a weed killer, and was used in warfare to destroy crops and jungle. Today, Agent Orange is associated with the deformities it causes in people exposed to the chemical, and their children. The United States gradually increased their military presence in Vietnam through the 1960’s, and began using a new chemical weapon, which came to be known as “Agent Orange”, named after the color on the containers. The first Indo-Chinese war was followed by the second, better known as the Vietnam War, in 1955. The famine would become crucial to the communists who would later seize power, as they used it as a rallying cry.

The Vietnam War was called the the first _____