When it seemed that the Vietnam struggle was about to be won by the US, a communist offensive in January 1968 during Tet (the Vietnamese New Year) would be launched by the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong would suddenly launch the assault on twenty-seven key South Vietnamese cities including Saigon (the capital). Although they would be beaten with heavy losses, the offensive demonstrated the hole in LBJ's logic of gradual escalation in Vietnam to win the war, with the American public calling even more for a speedy end to the war.

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