Tet 1969

Tet 1969 refers to the attacks mounted by principally North Vietnamese forces in February 1969 in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Most attacks centered around military targets near Saigon and Da Nang and were quickly beaten off, althought the U.S. suffered heavy casualties. Some speculate that the attacks were mounted to test the will of the new American President Richard Nixon who retaliated by secretly bombing Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia the following month.