1968

LEADING UP TO 1968 - No clear cut winner in the war - Increase in American forces in SE Asia - Viet Cong proved to be the guding force in South Vietnam - US tries to "pacify" South Vietnam - Optimistic reports are sent back to Johnson - "a light of the end of the tunnel" - The public still supported America in Vietnam

THE TET OFFENSIVE - An attack on U.S strongholds throughout Southern VIetnam by VC (Via Cong) - VC attacks bases and embasy's - U.S eventually drives VC out, but the fighting went on for a long time - Shook the public, who thought the enemyw was close to defeat - VIETNAM: The Television War - LBJ stuggles- Congress cuts his Great SOciety budget - Johnson is criticized <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- New Defense Secretary states that the was is unwinnable <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- President Johnson resigns <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- Marthin Luther King Jr. is assasinated, soon after <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- Violence and chaos all across the nation! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- American needs a leader, Bobby Kennedy steps up <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- Bobby Kennedy(who probably would have been elected) is assasinated by <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- Massive riots in Chicago <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">- Nixon wins election