Baby Boomers, who were at or approaching college age, were directly affected by the draft and the Vietnamese War. As a result, student activists were the first to organize and actively protest the war. Reared on civil rights activism, they knew the components needed to put together a strong and effective movement. In addition to students, the peace movement was propelled forward by others such as mothers, anti-establishment counter cultures, African Americans, artists, clergy, educators, entertainers, women's rights groups, Chicano movements, journalists, lawyers and physicians.
College Students
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Jack
The Vietnam War was the first war to be televised to the public. So America saw everything that was going on in Vietnam and wanted to pull out of the war.
quakers wasn't it?
quakers wasn't it?
Vietnam was a French colony. The Vietcong first threw out the French. Then America tried to conquer Vietnam and the Vietcong threw out the Americans.
racism
Eisenhower first dispatched US Troops to RVN in February 1955.
The nation (country) of Vietnam didn't exist during the Vietnam War. Nor was any nation called "Vietnam" fighting the US. There was a country called North Vietnam that defeated the Republic of South Vietnam in 1975. The US was allied to the RVN (Republic of South Vietnam).
Publicly they acclaimed the US for doing so. What they thought privately is possibly different.
Military advisors first arrived in Vietnam in 1950. America started sending troops into Vietnam as early as 1960, but they took no military action until 1965. The United States was actively (militarily) involved in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975.