Southeast Asia — the Fall of the South

Abstract

By 1967 the war had reached stalemate. This, however, was a stalemate the Vietcong intended to break. In January 1968 they launched the Tet Offensive. Across South Vietnam and in every city, the Vietcong launched a series of co-ordinated raids. There was even fighting in the grounds of the US embassy in Saigon. It came as a shocking blow to the American people, who had assumed that their forces were winning in South Vietnam.