Vietnam-Protest

WAR - WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

You have already heard that America’s involvement in Vietnam was the most controversial issue of the 1960s and 70s, and the war created the most vocal and varied opposition of any war in our country’s history. What were the reasons for this opposition? Why did some many Americans oppose the American involvement in Vietnam?

That’s your task today …


 * To begin,** read the following overviews of the anti-war movement – [|Fighting the War at Home] and [|Culture of Protest].


 * Next,** you will get a specific topic, and your task is to post a note, an image, a video clip, or all of the above of the bulletin board for your period. Take a look at the various resources and jot down some notes, links, and images on a Protest page on your online notebook. Then, go to your class bulletin board and describe your reason for opposing the war in a creative method. Check out the bulletin board for examples. State an opinion, describe a meeting, organize a protest, post some song lyrics, quote an excerpt from a speech, do more than one thing, do something! When you are done, embed your class board on your page.


 * 1) Someone who doubts the what happened in the [|Gulf of Tonkin]
 * 2) A member of Congress at the [|Fullbright Hearings]
 * 3) A member of [|Students for a Democratic Society]
 * 4) Someone who just read about the [|Pentagon Papers]
 * 5) A citizen shocked about the [|Credibility Gap] / [|Credibility Gap]
 * 6) A citizen who viewed a report about [|My Lai]
 * 7) Someone opposing the [|Draft]
 * 8) A supporter of [|Martin Luther King, Jr] / [|MLK Beyond Vietnam]
 * 9) An American opposed to the incursion into [|Cambodia]
 * 10) A citizen reaciting to the [|The Living Room War] / [|The Living Room War]
 * 11) A member of [|Vietnam Veterans Against the War]
 * 12) Someone who just saw a report on [|The Tet Offensive]
 * 13) A college professor leading on of the [|Teach-Ins]
 * 14) A participant in the [|Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam]
 * 15) Someone reacting to news from [|Kent State] and [|Jackson State]
 * 16) Someone hearing about the [|Sterling Hall Bombing]

__Pentagon Papers__ -Governement betrayal -released by New York Times -showed government was increasing military power, while telling public that they were withdrawing troops -under JFK and LBJ - “But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing: you can’t trust the government; you can’t believe what they say; and you can’t rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it’s wrong, and the President can be wrong.” ~Haldeman -lost public trust

__SDS__ -central power in antiwar movement -mostly college students protesting -protesting or trying to educate the public

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