a doubtful election that made him president of the GVN. While in the United States of America , President Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the creation of a counter-revolutionary alternative south of the seventeenth parallel. The North felt as though they deserved to be in ownership of the South. In accordance to the Peace Accord, there would be an election to see who would govern all of Vietnam, not just half. Many interests were in Vietnam for many Americans in higher places, the main one was capitol. Many protests were going on at home, in America. People were marching at Capitol Hill and outside of most government buildings, speaking their minds for what they believe is wrong. Voicing how it was wrong to send troops over to fight the battle of another nation.

According to the terms of the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would hold national elections in 1956 to reunify the country. The division at the seventeenth parallel, a temporary separation without cultural p

As commanders thought about plans of better survival, the higher powers vetoed them and made new plans, even though they were across the waters on a whole other continent. The mis-communication between the generals that were actually there, and the ones that were in the USA, lead to massive numbers of deaths of American troops.

Unfortunately many young brave soldiers died on the battle fields trying to protect their country; but the sad part about this situation was that this battle had nothing to do with their nation.

It seems as though they were just very unprepared for what had happened.

On the night of January 31st 1968, one of the greatest campaigns in military history took place. 70,000 North Vietnamese soldiers launched the TET offensive, through tactical planning and the use of knowledge the Vietnamese proved that this was one of the best attacks ever. The North Vietnamese or Viet Cong, used their own style of warfare, not the usual straight on combat. The type of combat that would make them win , any and every type. Whether it meant sleeping in tunnels under the road, or in ditches, or staying awake in the water just so that they could attack. The Vietnamese used the bombs that the Americans threw against the Americans. Not every shell is going to open and explode, so for the ones that didn't, the Vietnamese retrieved them from the fields and then disassembled them to create their own bombs in the form of land mines. The land mines were then placed in the American fields letting them have the opportunity to feel their own pain they tried

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