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Anti-Vietnam War
Why did people oppose the War.....? People were particularly upset by the use of chemical weapons such as napalm and agent orange.The expense of the war by 1968 was 66 million dollars a day. So people were mad at the waste of money and that they could use that money to help America.Many people opposed the draft because it was unfair. Another unfair thing of the draft was the high number of African Americans called to serve. they made 20 percent of combat troops in vietnam.The Tet offensive in january of 1968 decreased Americas Moral and many believed that America could not win the war.
How did people protest....? On college campuses, there were sit-ins. They were kind of peaceful protest in which demonstrators sit down in a public place and refuse to leave; usually police must carry the protesters away, and then the police arrest themThere were protests all over the country. Large groups of people would gather and voice their opinions. Some would become violent like the Kent state shooting and the Sterling Hall bombing which ended up in some deaths.In Demonstrations around the country, young men burned their draft cards. About 50,000 people staged such a protest in front of the Pentagon on October 21, 1967
Who protested.....? A group called the Diggers organized free meals in the park and on the street. the diggers set up free stores where anyone could take what they needed.The Yippies had a high profile in the anti-Vietnam riots that erupted outside of the 1968 Democratic National Converntion in Chicago in August. The Yippies composed only a small part of the protesters, but the flamboyance of Hoffman and others kept the group in the spotlight. The core members of the group, known as the Chicago seven (Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, and Lee Weiner), were arrested and convicted for their role in inciting the riots. The Woodstock music and art fair was three days of peace and music.It delivered that and more, despite traffic jams, rain, mud, nearly half a million people showed up when only 50,000 were expected.
