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1968. CHAPTER 30, SECTION 4. VOCABULARY. TET OFFENSIVE CLARK CLIFFORD ROBERT F. KENNEDY EUGENE McCARTHY HUBERT HUMPHREY GEORGE WALLACE. IMPORTANT DATES. 1968 : JANUARY : THE TET OFFENSIVE MARCH : LBJ ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION APRIL : MLK ASSASSINATED

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1968

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  1. 1968 CHAPTER 30, SECTION 4

  2. VOCABULARY • TET OFFENSIVE • CLARK CLIFFORD • ROBERT F. KENNEDY • EUGENE McCARTHY • HUBERT HUMPHREY • GEORGE WALLACE

  3. IMPORTANT DATES • 1968: • JANUARY: THE TET OFFENSIVE • MARCH: LBJ ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION • APRIL: MLK ASSASSINATED • JUNE: RFK ASSASSINATED • AUGUST: DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION RIOTS IN CHICAGO • NOVEMBER: NIXON ELECTED PRESIDENT

  4. A TUMULTUOUS YEAR • JAN., ’68: THE TET OFFENSIVEBEGINS • MASSIVE ASSAULT BY COMMUNIST FORCES ON US/ARVN FORCES • 100 CITIES/TOWNS IN S-VNAM ATTACKED • WORST FIGHTING: • SAIGON – U.S. EMBASSY OVERRUN BY VC • HUE CITY • OFFENSIVE LASTS 1 MONTH • RESULTS: • VC LOSSES: 32,000 KIA • US/ARVN LOSSES: 3,000 • EFFECT? • US/ARVN CLAIM MAJOR VICTORY • TET WAS SHOCK TO AMERICAN PUBLIC: WHY? • LBJ/Mc NAMARA HAD STATED WAR WAS NEARLY WON • SO…LBJ’s CREDIBILITY GAP GROWS

  5. “CRACK THE SKY, SHAKE THE EARTH.” Message to NVA / VC forces that they were beginning the greatest battle in Vietnam’s history

  6. TET OFFENSIVE,SOUTHVIETNAM,JAN.-FEB., 1968

  7. Major NVA/VC Assaults, 1968 Tet Offensive, Vietnam

  8. VC/NVA ASSUALT ON SAIGON, TET OFFENSIVE, JAN., 1968

  9. U.S. Marines, Hue City, January, 1968

  10. ELECTION OF 1968 • WHO RUNS? • DEMOCRAT: HUBERT HUMPHREY • REPUBLICAN: RICHARD M. NIXON • AMERICAN INDEPENDENT: GEORGE WALLACE • KEY ISSUES: • VIETNAM • RACE RELATIONS • GOV’T CREDIBILITY – “THE CREDIBILITY GAP” • RESULTS: NIXON WINS • NIXON: 301 ELECTORAL VOTES • HUMPHREY: 191 ELECTORAL VOTES • WALLACE: 46 ELECTORAL VOTES*** • ***WALLACE TOOK WORKING CLASS WHITE VOTES IN NORTH AWAY FROM HUMPHREY DUE TO RACE ISSUES • SO WHAT? • REPUBLICANS IN POWER FOR FIRST TIME SINCE EISENHOWER

  11. RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1968 - 74

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