Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with protests in 1964 against the role of the United States in the Vietnam War. It became a social movement over the several years. This movement caused and educated a debate, mainly in the United States, during the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s on how to end the war.
| Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War | |
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| Part of the Counterculture of the 1960s and Vietnam War | |
 Anti-war protest at the Pentagon, 1967 | |
| Date | 1964–1973 |
| Caused by | American involvement in Vietnam |
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Many in the peace movement within the United States were children, mothers, or anti-establishment young people.
Their actions were mainly of peaceful, nonviolent events. In some cases, police used violent force against peaceful demonstrators. In 1970, four unarmed college students were killed by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. The incident's name is the Kent State shootings.[1][2][3])
By 1967, according to Gallup polls, an increasing majority of Americans thought that the military involvement in Vietnam to be a mistake.[4]
Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War Media
Vietnam War protesters in Wichita, Kansas, 1967
U.S. Marshals dragging away a Vietnam War protester in Washington, D.C. 1967
Students demonstrate in Saigon, July 1964, observing the tenth anniversary of the July 1954 Geneva Agreements.
Protest against the Vietnam War in Helsinki, December 1967
Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam, April 1968
The My Lai massacre was used as an example of bad military conduct during the Vietnam War.
This man wears a Purple Heart medal as he watches a San Francisco peace march, April 1967.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam War rally at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul on April 27, 1967
Demonstration against conscription in Martin Place & Garden Island Dock, Sydney in 1966.
Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström, Gösta Cervin in a protest march against the Vietnam War in Stockholm, 1965
Universal Newsreel about peace marches in April 1967
References
- ↑ Philip Caputo (May 4, 2005). The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later. NPR. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4630596. Retrieved November 9, 2007.
- ↑ Rep. Tim Ryan (May 4, 2007). Congressman Tim Ryan Gives Speech at 37th Commemoration of Kent State Massacre. Congressional website of Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). http://timryan.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=160&Itemid=48. Retrieved November 9, 2007.
- ↑ John Lang (May 4, 2000). The day the Vietnam War came home. Scripps Howard News service. http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/04-00/04-30-00/a09wn031.htm. Retrieved November 9, 2007.
- ↑ "Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93". The New York Times. July 7, 2009. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?_r=1.
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