IWBAT analyze the Tet Offensive’s role in attitudes about war.

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 US destroyer gathering intelligence off of N. Vietnam was attacked by three N. Vietnamese torpedo boats.

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IWBAT analyze the Tet Offensive’s role in attitudes

about war

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Gulf of Tonkin Incident

US destroyer gathering intelligence off of N.

Vietnam was attacked by three N. Vietnamese

torpedo boats.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

passed August 7, 1964

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Ho Chi Minh Trail Trail used by N. Vietnam

to bring supplies and soldiers in to S. Vietnam

Went from N. Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia

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Tet is the Vietnamese New Year celebration

(Happens February 10, 2013)

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Each year there was a two-day cease fire so

Vietnamese could celebrate.

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ARVN – Army of the Republic of Vietnam (S. Vietnam Army)

VC – Vietcong

NLF – National Liberation Front

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In paragraph one, what does the author mean by “wishful thinking?” What examples of wishful thinking are given in the text?

  What consequences (both positive and

negative) came up for the Viet Cong after the Tet Offensive?

  What factors around the Tet Offensive,

“reduced the American will to fight?”

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VIDEO NOTES AMERICAN REACTION Very noisy War is stressful

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What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail? What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What was the Tet Offensive?

How do you think the media influences how people feel about war?

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Vietcong Tunnels