The Vietnam was was never a declared war, but 58,000 men died there in 10 years. Every night on TV the war was filmed and put on the news. This changed how people viewed the war and they began to protest the war. We saw men died in the jungles of Vietnam and it was felt that the government needed to leave or declare a war.
US military policy and civilian protests.
The majority of people who, at the time, believed that the war in Vietnam was immoral, generally also "believed" that war itself was "immoral." All wars in US history have been protested by it's citizens. A big example was the Mexican War of 1846-1848, in which the present states of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, were taken to become part of the United States of America. President Polk was afronted by heavy anti-war protests during that war. The settling of the US Frontier by the US Cavalry, the US Civil War, all had protesters against them, often proclaiming "immoral" reasons for those wars. The Vietnam War was NOT a new comer to anti-war demonstrations. But it lasted so long, and drafted so many men, that the protests became unbearable for the White House and the Pentagon. That's what made the Vietnam War stand out.
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President Johnson's visit to Australia during the Vietnam War was met by Australian anti-war protests.
See website: Anti-War Protests
They mirrored the US; protests, etc.
They organised sit in's and protests.
See: Anti-War protests See: massacres
Draft riots and protests; and anti-war protests/riots disguised as such.
Anti-War/Anti-Draft protests and riots. The "draft" fed the anti-war protests.
With protests and riots.
Military conscription.
Mostly college students.
Because it caused a lot of dead, protests, riots, arguments, and headaches for a very long time.
During the war it was (Draft) protests and (Draft) riots.
US military policy and civilian protests.
The military draft was the real MAIN reason for the protests.