1968+-+The+Turning+Point+Notes

-No Clear cut winner in the war in Vietnam -Increase in American forces in SE Asia - Vietcong proved to be the guiding force in South Vietnam - US tries to pacify Sotuth Vietnam - Optimistic reports are sent back - McNarmara sees "a light at the end of the tunnel" - Overall, the public still supported America in Vietnam - The TET offensive which was an attack on US strongholds throughout Southern Vietnam by VC - The TET offensive eventually developed into a US victory shook the public, who thought the enemy was close to defeat -LBJ struggles - Congress cutes his Great Society project - Us involvement in the war is opening criticized - New Defense Secretary states that the war seems unwinnable -There are still racial problems -Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated and then Robert Kennedy was assinanated - People feel government is in ruins -