Opposition to United States 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
Date28 January 1965 – 29 March 1973
Caused byAmerican involvement in Vietnam
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Resulted in

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]

  1. ^ "Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93". The New York Times. July 7, 2009.

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