Turning point Flashcards
1
Q
20th Jan
A
Khe Sanh attacks begin (decoy)
2
Q
31 Jan
A
TET offensive, 100 cities strategically and simultaneously attacked by the NVA and Viet Cong. US embassy in Saigon.
3
Q
March 1968
A
2000 US soldiers killed
4
Q
1968 attack
A
VC and NVA attacked 44 provincial capitals and 64 district capitals.
5
Q
3rd Feb
A
20 million viewers watch the head of the national south Vietnamese police shoot dead a VC fighter in cold blood. Walter Cronkite ‘what the hell is going on here, I thought we were winning the war?’
6
Q
Nov 1968
A
Nixon wins the Presidential election
