Why was the Tet offensive a major turning point?
Tet New Year 1968
The Tet offensive was a statigic atack on many South Viet Nam cities including Saigon (the capital). The Viet Cong's original goals were not atcheived however it was a major turning point in the war as far as US civilian suppor of the war. The offensive caused many americans to doubt the power of the US army in Viet Nam. The US greatly out numbered the Viet Cong soldiers yet some how it had taken huge amounts of resources and men in order to regain the land that the US had lost in the offensive.

Do sources 51 and 52 agree or disagree about the My Lai Massacre?
For the most part sources 51 and 52 agree. They both say that the men who went to fight in Viet Nam (US soldiers) didn't think of their fights with the Viet Cong as killing inocent civilians or even as people. The soldiers saw them as a single ideology (communism) and that was what they were fighting against, not people or a country but an ideology.

Why do you think it took 12 months for any one to do anything about the massacre?
Because high ranking officials who had organized and fought in the massacre said that that only 20 civilians had been shot dead accidentally. And also because many of the US soldiers were so used to killing civilians that they saw it as just a part of war, something that couldn't be helped. Some soldiers probaby saw it as a good thing because they didn't see Vietnamese people as equals but inferiors or as commies or both.