Lê Duẩn
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Lê Duẩn whose real name is Lê Văn Nhuận, was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist
Lê Duẩn in 1951
Lê Duẩn and Trường Chinh with Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu from the Socialist Republic of Romania
Lê Duẩn with Mao Zedong (1964)
The Ba Chuc massacre was perpetrated by the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army during one of their attacks on Vietnam in 1978
Tet Offensive
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The Tet Offensive was both a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched a surprise attack o
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…as the official strategy to win the war. The General Offensive/General Uprising would be launched during the Tết holiday in January/February 1968. The Tet Offensive would prove to be a military defeat, but a strategic success. Despite the failure of the offensive, the North Vietnamese launched a Phase II attack in…
General William C. Westmoreland, COMUSMACV
VC prior to departing for Saigon-Gia Định
VC special forces are sworn into the forces before the Tet Offensive.
VC troops pose with new AK-47 assault rifles and American field radios.