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    Antiwar movement

    in the USA during the


    Vietnam War
    Ing. Mayla A. González Ocura
    HISTORY
    When the war in Vietnam began, many
    Americans believed that defending South
    Vietnam from communist aggression was in
    the national interest. Communism was
    threatening free governments across the
    globe. Any sign of non-intervention from
    the United States might encourage
    revolutions elsewhere
    As the war dragged on, more and more
    Americans grew weary of mounting
    casualties and escalating costs. The
    small antiwar movement grew into an
    unstoppable force, pressuring
    American leaders to reconsider its
    commitment.
    PEACE
    MOVEMENT
    Leaders opposed the war on moral and economic
    grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were
    fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign
    aggressors. Innocent Vietnamese peasants were being
    killed in the crossfire. American planes wrought
    environmental damage by dropping their defoliating
    chemicals.
    Ho Chi Minh was the most popular leader in all of
    Vietnam, and the United States was supporting an
    undemocratic, corrupt military regime. Young
    American soldiers were suffering and dying. Their
    economic arguments were less complex, but as
    critical of the war effort. Military spending simply took
    money away from Great Society social programs such
    as welfare, housing, and urban renewal.
    The Draft
    The draft was another major source of resentment among
    college students. The age of the average American soldier
    serving in Vietnam was 19, seven years younger than its
    World War II counterpart. Students observed that young
    Americans were legally old enough to fight and die but
    were not permitted to vote or drink alcohol. Such criticism
    led to the 26TH AMENDMENT, which granted suffrage to 18-
    year-olds.
    Forced an end U.S.
    Key Points 0 combat operations in
    Vietnam and a suspension
    The start of the
    0 bombing of North
    3 of the draft by January
    1973.
    1 Vietnam in 1964
    Students, Violence on
    government officials, 0 Confrontations
    Campuses became much
    0 labor unions, church 4 more common in the years
    that followed, culminating
    2 groups and middle- most horribly in the May 1970
    class families shooting of 13 Kent State
    increasingly University students by
    opposed the war as National Guardsmen. Four of
    it climaxed in 1968 those Kent State students
    died.
    Students, government

    Key Points
    Recruiters for the
    0
    representatives, unions,
    church groups and middle-
    class families opposed the
    0 military and 7 war, supported by the Nixon
    companies partnered
    5 with war
    presidency for five more
    years.
    Thousands were US troop levels in Vietnam
    0 imprisoned, 0 have peaked, with more than
    escaping to refuge in 300 Americans killed every
    6 Canada, or went
    8 week.
    underground
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    American Experience, PBS. (2017, August 8). Protests and Backlash. American Experience | PBS.
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/two-days-in-october-student-antiwar-
    protests-and-backlash/

    ushistory.org. (n.d.-b). The Antiwar Movement [ushistory.org].


    https://www.ushistory.org/us/55d.asp

    The US Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1964-1973) | ICNC. (2022, March 9). ICNC.
    https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/us-anti-vietnam-war-movement-1964-1973/

    Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) | The American Yawp Reader.
    (n.d.). https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/28-the-unraveling/statement-by-john-kerry-of-
    vietnam-veterans-against-the-war-1971/

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