Why was 1968 a turning point in the Vietnam war?
20th Century battlefield 1968 Vietnam On 30th January 1968 the people in Saigon in South Vietnam were celebrating their holiday of Tete when fighting broke out from the communist assault. The Tete offensive had begun. How did this happen Since 1965 the US had been fighting in Vietnam since 1965 as the Americans thought if Vietnam fell to communism then rest of south east Asia would fall which was known as the Domino effect. The US had many artillery bases just South of the boarder bombing the North with a demilitarised zone along the boarder. The South was an unstable republic while the North was backed up by China and the USSR and it's leader was the Communist was Ho Chi Minh. He had trained and equipped 500,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and had punished out the imperial French. The Americans were led by William Westmoreland was in charge of 500,000 US troops and 800,000 South Vietnamese soldiers. The Americans were fighting the North and was fighting Com