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Title: Anti-War%20Movement


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Anti-War Movement
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  • Student Activism
  • Media Coverage
  • The draft
  • Lack of censorship

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Immoral War?
  • Two anti-war activists set themselves on fire in
    November
  • 32 year old Norman Morrison at the Pentagon
  • 22 year old Roger Allen LaPorte at the UN
    headquarters in NYC

4
  • Protests against the Vietnam War took place in
    the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a
    movement in opposition to the Vietnam War and
    took place mainly in the U.S.

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Executions
  • On February 1, 1968, a suspected NLF officer was
    summarily executed by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a
    South Vietnamese National Police Chief. Loan shot
    the suspect in the head on a public street in
    front of journalists

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Public Sympathy
  • The execution was filmed and photographed and
    provided another iconic image that helped sway
    public opinion in the United States against the
    war.

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  • On October 15, 1969, hundreds of thousands of
    people took part in National Moratorium anti-war
    demonstrations across the United States the
    demonstrations prompted many workers to call in
    sick from their jobs and adolescents nationwide
    engaged in truancy from school. However, the
    proportion of individuals doing either who
    actually participated in the demonstrations is
    uncertain

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My Lai Massacre
  • Over 300 civilians killed by US special soldiers
  • The explosive news of the massacre fuelled the
    outrage of the antiwar movement, which demanded
    the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam.
    It also led more potential draftees to file for
    conscientious objector status. Those who had
    always argued against the war felt vindicated
    those on the fringes of the movement became more
    vocal.

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  • Many Americans opposed the war on moral grounds,
    horrified by the devastation it was wreaking on
    ordinary Vietnamese civilians

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Unwinnable War?
  • Many anti-war activists were themselves Vietnam
    veterans, as evidenced by the organization
    Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In April 1971,
    thousands of these veterans converged on the
    White House in Washington D.C., and hundreds of
    them threw their medals and decorations on the
    steps of the United States Capitol.

16
The Draft
  • The large cohort of Baby Boomers who became
    eligible for military service during the Vietnam
    War also meant a steep increase in the number of
    exemptions and deferments, especially for college
    and graduate students

17
Poor go to War
  • This was the source of considerable resentment
    among poor and working class young men, who could
    not afford a college education

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Draft card burnings
  • In late July 1965, Johnson doubled the number of
    young men to be drafted per month from 17,000 to
    35,000, and on August 31, signed a law making it
    a crime to burn a draft card.
  • On October 15, 1965 the student-run National
    Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
    in New York staged the first draft card burning
    to result in an arrest under the new law

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  • In 1967, the continued operation of a seemingly
    unfair draft system then calling as many as
    40,000 men for induction each month fuelled a
    burgeoning draft resistance movement.

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Anti-War Slogans
  • Common slogans and chants
  • "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed
    today?"
  • The chant "One, two, three, four! We don't want
    your fucking war!" was chanted repeatedly at
    demonstrations throughout the U.S. in the late
    1960s and early 1970s.
  • "Draft Beer, not boys", "Hell no, we won't go",
    "Make love, not war", "Eighteen today, dead
    tomorrow",

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  • and "LBJ pull out like your old man should
    have!" were a few of the anti-war slogans.
  • "Fight the VD, Not the VC!" displayed sentiments
    to concentrate more on the familiar problem of
    venereal diseases than the foreign group, the
    Vietcong.
  • "Love our country", "America, love it or leave
    it" and "No glory like old glory" are examples of
    pro-war slogans.

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  • There are many other pro- and anti-war slogans,
    however the mere informational use of those are
    very small. The group that mostly used the
    anti-war slogans were called "doves" those that
    supported the war were known as "hawks."

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Anti-War Songs
  • "Imagine" - John Lennon (1971)
  • War" - The Temptations, later covered by Edwin
    Starr (1970)
  • "The Unknown Soldier" - The Doors (1968)
  • "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye (1971)
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