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Negative Effects Of The Tet Offensive

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Tet Offensive The Tet offensive was the most significant attack towards the U.S military forces and South Vietnamese, strategically deployed by the North Vietnamese communist and Vietcong forces. This attack drastically weakened the U.S public support for the war in Vietnam, and it also resulted in a large number of loses on both sides. North Vietnamese forces anticipated that by accomplishing this plan and claiming victory, the war would end. Although this did not completely succeed from a military standpoint, it did succeed from a psychological and political standpoint. T.A.R.P T.A.R.P stands for Troubled Asset Relief Program. T.A.R.P was a number of programs offered by the U.S Treasury with the goal to stabilize the financial system, restore economic growth, and to aid financially troubled companies by purchasing assets and equity. These group of programs would be available in the event of a crisis. This ultimately lead the U.S Treasury to invest in troubled industries billions of dollars in tax paid money, with the intentions to stabilize the financial system and save millions of jobs since they were preventing companies from foreclosing In December 2013 the U.S Treasury claimed it had earned 11 billion dollars from investing in troubled companies. …show more content…

This alarmed U.S official and the CIA began to plan to overthrow his government. The CIA trained Guatemalans opposed to Arbenz government in Cuba, the CIA funded and supplies arms to overthrow the existing government. This lead to the resignation of president Jacobo Arbenz and the military taking over, this also concluded in thousand lives

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Using these special forces to work with Cuban groups to mostly scare and dominate the people. “Within a few years of the Arbenz overthrow, most Guatemalans lost hope that peaceful change and democratic elections would return” (137). A man named Fidel Castro took his chance to resist the dictatorship. Fidel wanted the same as the people, and stand united as one. However, the government thought something different than his vision.

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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns in the Vietnam War launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam People’s Army which killed over five thousand American soldiers. How did the Tet Offensive influence American politics, society, and the overall development of the war in Vietnam? This question plagues many historians, politicians, soldiers, and veterans. The Tet Offensive influenced American politics by forcing politicians to take a stand one way or another on the viewpoint of the war, influencing American society by causing people to see the reality of war itself, and influencing the overall development of the war by showing that the enemy was not, in fact, about to collapse in defeat as the government had told the public for years.

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This proves how the CIA’s Bay of Pigs Invasion sparked a terrible U.S. and Cuba foreign relationship that only seeks to improve now. Furthermore, the CIA operation, PBSUCCESS, in Guatemala showed the manipulative nature and selfishness of the United States. Associate professor of Adelphi University, Carl Mirra, explains that this CIA operation planned to replace the president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, with Castillo Armas because Arbenz planned to seize the uncultivated land owned by U.S. company, United Fruit. In operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA trained troops to invade Guatemala and sent out propaganda over the radios in order to force the noncommunist leader, Arbenz, to

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Although the U.S. government claimed to overthrow Guatemala because of its containment of communism, they really went in to protect the UFCO’s money, and to overthrow Arbenz. The CIA went into Guatemala to overthrow Arbenz for multiple reasons, but a big one is that he is not a communist.

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Moreover, he said military action would be a violation of American principles because Allende does not pose a grave threat to the US.10 However, on 16 October 1970, the CIA Deputy Director for plans Thomas Karamessines conveyed Kissinger's order to the CIA's Station Chief in Santiago: “it is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup.” Karamessines also urged that the “American hand” should be hidden.11 Subsequently, the CIA established contact with several groups of military plotters. On 22 October 1970, one of the groups attempted to kidnap General Rene Schneider, the uncooperative commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. Schneider was shot dead. The CIA had been in contact with that group of plotters.

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In January of 1959, Fidel Castro came to power. The United States’ attempted to overthrow Castro with the Bay of Pigs Invasion, a CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. The attempt fails miserably and is a huge embarrassment for Kennedy, who then vows to bring down Castro. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, Castro looked to the Soviet Union for protection. According to document D in 1962 “The soviets began shipping 40,000 troops, 60 missiles and 158 nuclear warheads to communist Cuba.”

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Reagan also aided military dictatorships and oligarchies in order to prevent communism from infiltrating and taking over these governments. However, sometimes it appeared that Reagan went overboard with anticommunism and usurped congressional roles in order to prevent its spread. For example, Reagan ordered the CIA to help the Contras take down the Nicaraguan leader. He did not pass this by Congress, thus some people began to worry he was abusing his

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion took place on april 17th, 1961 and it was a failed military invasion/coup of Cuba and its government by a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group known as Brigade 2506. This paramilitary group was trained and funded by the United States Central Intelligence agency (CIA). The invasion was partially caused by the Cuban Revolution of 1952 to 1959 in which dictator Fulgencio Batista, an ally of the United States, was forced into exile. On july 26th, 1959 Fidel Castro was put into power. He then cut the country 's formerly strong links with the US after expropriating the assets of US corporations and mobsters, and developing links with the Soviet Union.

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In 1947, the National Security Act established the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, the main goal of this agency is to provide information on political and economic conditions in other countries as well as observe forging media sources and government commutations, and espionage. These activities were monitored with the goal of weakening threats to the United States. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, a large amount of CIA work occurred in Chile. One of the operations that the CIA performed during this time in Chile was that they helped to “undermine the candidacy of Salvador Allende, physician turned politician who lead a socialist communist coalition on a platform of anti-imperialism, ant capitalism, land reform, and the nationalization

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Simultaneously, President Eisenhower was using strong-arm diplomacy to isolate Guatemala in the Organization of American States (OAS), using economic sanctions in attempts to stagnate Guatemala’s economy. On June 16, 1954, Castillo and his CIA-trained exiles were given the order to enter Guatemala, during which the CIA would supply aerial support. In the ensuing battles, with essential air support by the CIA, Castillo was able to capture major cities and advance. Castillo’s major success was also due to the lack of serious fighting by the Guatemalan army, which was wary of Arbenz’s agrarian reforms and worried that if Castillo were defeated, it

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The strategy laid out a plan to hit multiple targets located south of the demilitarized zone in what amounted to a campaign of shock and awe. Communist North Vietnamese leaders intended to force American to withdraw troops, thus allowing North and South Vietnam to reconcile under a Communist government that would reunify the nation. The combined force of over 84,000 NVA and Vietcong (VC) troops were coordinated to hit large cities and towns during the cease fire called during the Vietnamese national holiday of Tet. Consequently, the U.S. and South Vietnamese Army (RVN) troops were caught off guard but effectively launched counterattacks that decimated the Vietcong and NVA forces.

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targeted third world Latin countries in defense of the communist threat. The communist threat, thus became a gateway in which the U.S. used to intervene in countries that offered resources and cheap labor. In 1960 the Guatemalan Civil War erupted after the U.S. military intervened in fighting against Guatemalan peasants and Mayan descents who were fighting for basic human rights in a corrupt government. Furthermore, in 1979 the Salvadorian civil war broke out as a result of a communist conversion by left wing guerilla groups against a corrupted government. In addition, the U.S. contributed to the civil war by providing the Salvadoran military with weapons and arsenal, thus increasing the violence in the country and prolonging the war.

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The attack on the base had managed to cause many casualties, including over 2,400 people killed and over 1,000 wounded. The plan of the attack was to prevent the Americans from fighting back and preventing them from their plans as the war went on. They wanted to destroy the US Pacific Fleet

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It is essential to know that during this time, the United-States of America had influence over Cuba and backed Batista’s government. Those factors influenced Castro’s rise to power as Batista’s response against opposition did not prove to be efficient enough to stop Castro rise to power as guerrilla warfare, a war tactic used by Castro which was a forceful technique and a determining factor in his rise to power. As stated by Leo Huberman and Paul. M.Sweezy , this success also relied on the participation of the Cuban population: "the peasants in increasing numbers joined the rebel army or organized the various civilian links and services which are so crucial to the success of a guerrilla movement. " The successful guerrilla war is a direct cause in Fidel Castro’s rise to power as it was effective and linked to ideology as the guerrilla movement rested upon the Cuban peasantry and its cooperation.

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The Marine Corps has a suicide problem. And while the institution seeks a solution, the symptoms of suicide continue to evolve and become more complex with each passing year. The highest level of Marine Corps leadership made mitigating suicide a priority issue, but those efforts have not translated into actionable intelligence amongst the ranks. The Marine Corps needs to develop a well-rounded policy and action plan which incorporates policy, health care competence, and peer-involvement to reduce suicide amongst the ranks.

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