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It began as an anti draft movement among the hippies and the flower children. As the US casualties mounted it became more and more widespread and began to appear on the evening news along with reports of Buddhist monks setting themselves aflame, young napalmed girls and an every increasing number of flag draped caskets returnin to the States. The draft resisters, evaders and dodgers increased in numbers as did the number of draft card burnings. The larger and more vocal the protests became, the more the government leaked about Laos and Cambodia. Suport of the Vietnam War collapsed and then ended.
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∙ 13y agoThe American Anti-Vietnam War movement, or anti-war movement was a disquised name for "anti-draft movement." Another words instead of saying "we're afraid of being conscripted into the military, going thru boot camp, and being subjected to harsh military discipline and regimentation, and then off to Vietnam (and either getting maimed for life or killed)", the far more respectable form of protesting was saying, "the war's immoral, undeclared, unjust, we shouldn't be there, etc." Simply stated, most of the draft aged male protesters (that were not veterans) were just plain scared of being put into the military, and just USED the war as an excuse.
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Secret bombings of this nation in 1970 sparked massive antiwar demonstrations?
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
What influences did the antiwar peacesmakers have on the Vietnam war?
It angered the US service men, and lowered their morale.
What did Vietnam antiwar protesters believe?
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
A popular form of protest during the anti-Vietnam War movement was?
Burning one's draft card.
What is antiwar?
It indicated that the involved movement was not aligned against a particular war or hostile activity, but to the concept of war as a solution to World conflicts
How was the antiwar movement criticismed to the Vietnam?
The military draft was three fourths of the anti-war movement.
What were the motives of those in the antiwar movement?
To stop death and the horrors of the Vietnam war
What are the specific legacies involved in the antiwar movement of the Vietnam war?
The all Volunteer military.
What term describes the idea supported by American protestors that the US shouldn't be involved in the Vietnam War?
The antiwar movement
What term describe the idea supported by American protestors that the US shouldn't be involved in the Vietnam war?
The antiwar movement
What are the similarities and differences between the antiwar movements of World War 1 and Vietnam?
There wasn't enough time for the anti-war movement to take hold during WW1, it only lasted a year for the US.
What describes the relationship between antiwar protesters and the silent majority during the Vietnam War?
The silent majority disagreed with the antiwar protesters but rarely discussed their opinions publicly.
Secret bombings of this nation in 1970 sparked massive antiwar demonstrations?
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
Antiwar protests?
was a student protest that started as the Free Speech movement in California and spread around the world. All members of the Anti-War Movement shared an opposition to war in Vietnam and condemned U.S. presence there. They claimed this was violating Vietnam's rights. This movement resulted in growing activism on campuses aimed at social reform etc. Primarily a middle-class movement. CULTURAL.
What influences did the antiwar peacesmakers have on the Vietnam war?
It angered the US service men, and lowered their morale.
What did Vietnam antiwar protesters believe?
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
By 1967 the size of antiwar protests showed that?
Opposition to the war was no longer radical. (Apex)
