It angered the US service men, and lowered their morale.
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.
U.S involvement in the Vietnam War was called a quagmire because the Vietnam War became worse for the U.S as they went further into the war. The U.S and its ally South Vietnam were unable to defeat North Vietnam and its Vietcong allies. The U.S was unable to effectively remove troops from Vietnam without feeling like they lost the fight against containment of Communism. Public opinion shifted from support of the war to antiwar sentiment.
Air war over North Vietnam. Ground war in South Vietnam; Riverine war in South Vietnam.
To stop death and the horrors of the Vietnam war
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
The all Volunteer military.
The silent majority disagreed with the antiwar protesters but rarely discussed their opinions publicly.
The military draft was three fourths of the anti-war movement.
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
The antiwar movement
The antiwar movement
There wasn't enough time for the anti-war movement to take hold during WW1, it only lasted a year for the US.
The Vietnamese country was totally infiltrated by the Chinese and the Chinese ambitions to have Vietnam as their seaport. That's why the Vietnam War began --to contain Chinese influence.
Yippies carried out demonstrations in the streets outside the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago Police attacked them. Anti-War Protesters were trying to influence the Democratic Convention to choose a Peace Candidate to end the war in Vietnam which had escalated rapidly under LBJ.
Opposition to the war was no longer radical. (Apex)