Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War information
1965–1973 anti-war movement
"Opposition to the Vietnam War" redirects here. For opposition to Australian involvement, see Opposition to Australian involvement in the Vietnam War.
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
Part of counterculture of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War
The March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967
Date
28 January 1965 – 29 March 1973
Caused by
American involvement in Vietnam
Goals
End of military conscription
Withdrawal of troops from Vietnam
Resulted in
Disruption of military conscription
Lowered military morale
End of the Johnson presidency
Voting age lowered to 18
Withdrawal of troops and aid
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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
Edmonton aircraft bombing
March Against the Vietnam War
Human Be-In
Angry Arts week
March on the Pentagon
Columbia University protests of 1968
1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity
Bed-Ins for Peace
Weather High School Jailbreaks
Days of Rage
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Free The Army tour
Kent State shootings
Student strike of 1970
Hard Hat Riot
Sterling Hall bombing
1971 May Day protests
1960s Berkeley protests
Central Park be-ins
Draft evasion in the Vietnam War
G.I. movement
Vietnam War protests at the University of Michigan
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Movements in the Counterculture of the 1960s
Anti-nuclear movement
Black power movement
Chicano movement
Civil rights movement
Free Speech Movement
Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War
Sexual revolution
Gay liberation
Women's liberation movement
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1965 against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years. This movement informed and helped shape the vigorous and polarizing debate, primarily in the United States, during the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s on how to end the Vietnam War.
Many in the peace movement within the United States were children, mothers, or anti-establishment youth. Opposition grew with participation by the African American civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, Chicano Movements, and sectors of organized labor. Additional involvement came from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians such as Benjamin Spock, and military veterans.
Their actions consisted mainly of peaceful, nonviolent events; few events were deliberately provocative and violent. In some cases, police used violent tactics against peaceful demonstrators. By 1967, according to Gallup polls, an increasing majority of Americans considered military involvement in Vietnam to be a mistake, echoed decades later by the then-head of American war planning, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.[1]
^"Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93". The New York Times. July 7, 2009.
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