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

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

3. Gulf of Tonkin Incident • US destroyer gathering intelligence off of N. Vietnam was attacked by three N. Vietnamese torpedo boats.

4. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed August 7, 1964

5. 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

7. Tet is the Vietnamese New Year celebration (Happens February 10, 2013)

8. Each year there was a two-day cease fire so Vietnamese could celebrate.

9. ARVN – Army of the Republic of Vietnam (S. Vietnam Army) • VC – Vietcong • NLF – National Liberation Front

11. 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?”

12. Video Notes American Reaction • Very noisy • War is stressful

13. 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?

14. Vietcong Tunnels