tet_offensive

The Tet Offensive was a massive series of attacks by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and their international allies. It was the largest escalation of the Vietnam War to date, and was timed to coincide with (and thus named for) the traditional Vietnamese Tet lunar new year at the end of January, 1968. In the early morning of 30 January 1968, attacks began against hundreds of towns and cities all across South Vietnam.