Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
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Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began slowly and in small numbers in 1964 on various college campuses in the United States. This happened during a time of unprecedented student activism reinforced in numbers by the demographically significant baby boomers, but grew to include a wide and varied cross-section of Americans from all walks of life. The growing opposition to the Vietnam War was also partly attributed to greater access to uncensored information compared with previous wars and extensive television media coverage of what, ultimately, became America's longest combat war. Likewise, a system of conscription that provided exemptions and deferments more easily claimed by middle and upper class registrants - and thus inducted disproportionate numbers of poor, working-class, and minority registrants - drove much of the protest. By the end of 1967, as the war ground on with no end in sight, public opinion polls showed a majority of Americans were opposed the war and wanted it to end.
See also
- Bed-in
- Civil disobedience
- The Anarchist Cookbook
- Legality of the Vietnam War
- Canada and the Vietnam War
- Nonviolence
- Opposition to the Iraq War
- Pacifism
- List of peace activists
- List of anti-war organizations
- List of protest marches on Washington, D.C.
- May Day Protests 1971, Washington, D.C.
- Sterling Hall bombing, Madison, Wisconsin.
- Soviet-run peace movements in Western Europe and USA
- Jeff Sharlet (Vietnam antiwar activist)
- Teach-in
