Despite the fact that the Tet hostile was in the long run pushed back by South Vietnamese strengths, the primary point of this strike was to lower spirit and support for the republic in the South.However, the way that the truce had been freely reported in both North and South Vietnam preceding the Tet Lunar New Year Celebrations, implied that people, in general, scowled downward on the North Vietnamese as they had broken the truce agreement.The just way that the Tet hostile was powerful was the way that the assault was exposed in America demonstrating that the North Vietnamese could dispatch such a huge assault when the US government had persuaded the US open that they were not prepared to do such a huge scale assault.