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Ronaldo Rodriguez
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∙ 15y agoOpposition to the war arose during a time of unprecedented student activism reinforced in numbers by the demographically significant baby boomers, but grew to include a wide and varied cross-section of Americans from all walks of life. The growing opposition to the Vietnam War was also partly attributed to greater access to uncensored information compared with previous wars and extensive television media coverage of what, ultimately, became America's longest combat war.
Likewise, a system of conscription that provided exemptions and deferments more easily claimed by middle and upper class registrants - and thus inducted disproportionate numbers of poor, working-class, and minority registrants - drove much of the protest.
Not to mention the draft which called your birthday and you had to go to war or run to Canada. Just burning your draft card was illegal. The only exceptions were if you went to college. If not 17, 18 year olds were off to war.
Then there was the My Lai Massacre where American troops murdered, raped, and decapitated innocent civilians (men women, babies) over 504 of them.
Opposition to the war arose during a time of unprecedented student activism reinforced in numbers by the demographically significant baby boomers, but grew to include a wide and varied cross-section of Americans from all walks of life. The growing opposition to the Vietnam War was also partly attributed to greater access to uncensored information compared with previous wars and extensive television media coverage of what, ultimately, became America's longest combat war.
Likewise, a system of conscription that provided exemptions and deferments more easily claimed by middle and upper class registrants - and thus inducted disproportionate numbers of poor, working-class, and minority registrants - drove much of the protest.
Not to mention the draft which called your birthday and you had to go to war or run to Canada. Just burning your draft card was illegal. The only exceptions were if you went to college. If not 17, 18 year olds were off to war.
Then there was the My Lai Massacre where American troops murdered, raped, and decapitated innocent civilians (men women, babies) over 504 of them.
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Why did people in Australia oppose war in Vietnam?
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How did Australians citizens react to the Vietnam War?
Some were for our part in the Vietnam war and some against however by the time we left the war most were against it and it had a lot to do with the downfall of the liberal country party coalition of the day.
The citizens of the Civil War were what to the Vietnam war?
Citizens from both wars were conscripted. Citizens from both wars protested and rioted.
How did people in Australia oppose the war in Vietnam?
They mirrored the US; protests, etc.
How did churches oppose Vietnam War in Australia?
They organised sit in's and protests.
How did the Vietnam war have an impact on US citizens?
Since US citizens were drafted to fight the war; it had a negative impact.
How many vietnames citizens died in Vietnam war?
586,138
What was the impact of the Vietnam War on Indo-chinese Refugees?
The Vietnam war lasted twenty years from 1955 to 1975. Many children were orphaned and families were uprooted and separated. Citizens of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were adopted by American citizens or immigrated to the United States.
What did the citizens of south Vietnam do after the war?
South Vietnam no longer existed after 1975. People in the "former" Republic of South Vietnam became "Vietnamese" citizens under their new "Communist" government.
Why did the labor party oppose Australia's involvement in Vietnam war?
Because they believed theVietnamWar was a civil war , which it was, and that our involvement was unnecessary.
Why did America object to the Vietnam war?
Citizens objected to military conscription.
In general American tactics in the Vietnam war did what?
Alienated the Vietnamese citizens.
