What did the doves do during the Vietnam war and what they stood for?

Answer 1

The criticism of the war in Vietnam started out mainly as a conservative reaction to President Johnson’s policy of fighting for a limited purpose, a negotiated peace, rather than all out victory in Vietnam. Those critics included Senator Barry Goldwater, retired military men, and even some extreme members of the John Birch Society. These people were known as “hawks.” As the President escalated the war effort, and became a hawk himself, his chief critics became known as “doves” and included antiwar protesters, college students and faculty, liberal Democrats, and many other people in various walks of life who felt that the war was immoral, dragging on to no benefit for the US, and was causing increased casualty lists to mount. Many believed the US was fighting a war against the wishes of the majority of the Vietnamese people. These critics felt the war was a civil war in Vietnam between north and south and we had no business interfering. Some supported the communist effort in Vietnam and hoped for a defeat of the “imperialist capitalist” United States. Many Americans felt we were fighting a small, unimportant county, while the real enemy was China and the Soviet Union. There were many demonstrations against the war which took the form of sit ins in college and high school campuses, marches both for and against the war, and editorials written for and against the war. One of the most infamous demonstrations took place at Kent State University, 1970, when National Guard troops fired on Kent State students and protesters and four were killed and eleven were wounded.

Answer 2

Doves opposed the war, Hawks supported the war effort. The doves wanted to stop the fighting.

Answer 3

They believed the Us should not be involved in Vietnam's Civil War, the US should be spending their money to help their own economy, not on Vietnam's.

Answer 4

Doves opposed the war. they took their name from the dove op peace.

Answer 5

The doves felt like the Vietnam War was not America's concern and that we should have stayed out of it. The were upset as well that they were loosing millions of friends and family.

Answer 6

the doves was apart of the kent state massacre , draft,protest,agent orange,saturation bombing, my lai massacre, and napalm nd they stood up for all of them until the end

Answer 7

Hawks and Doves; pro war & anti-war.