History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lê Đức Thọ, Creighton Abrams, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam
24 Mar 2014
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It failed, because the nlf was virtually wiped out by the americans: the saigon regime survived (it didn"t fall as diem hoped it would) and the. The north vietnamese wanted to force the americans out of. The americans wanted to achieve a south vietnamese government: instead they had to negotiate. Both wanted to negotiate from a position of strength on the. The tet offensive showed that neither side could put enough pressure on the other to negotiate from a position of strength. Johnson) getting stronger: america"s wwii enemies (germany and japan) had been rehabilitated, recovered, and were rival powers, the soviet union had enough nuclear power to blow the world up, and the. U. s. had to deal with them as an equal: the two communist groups (soviet union and the people"s republic of. Johnson however, realized that this was politically impossible (he was under a lot of criticism: his advisors advised against westmoreland"s 200,000 men, and.
