The Tet Offensive
The Vietnam War was a conflict between South Vietnam and the Vietcong and North
Vietnam. The war began in 1954 and ended in 1975. The Vietnam War was "primarily
fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and
guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam" (bleep). The Vietnam War began soon
after the Geneva Conference divided Vietnam into the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam, or North Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam, also known as South
Vietnam. The Vietnam War began as a Vietnamese civil war and developed into an
international conflict in wh…