Understanding the

ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

m War
Vietna
Order of Events
1 Warm up Activity!

2 Learning Activity

3 Check for Understanding

What are we
learning 1 What is the Anti-War Movement?

today? 2 What is it's context?

3 What were it's goals and objectives?

4 What were it's major organizations?

5 What was the outcome?

Fighting the Vietnam War with a flower
Picture taken by: Marc Riboud
 Context
Causes of the war in vietnam

Inconclusive
Fear of the Instability in
ending of the Containment
"domino South
1st Indochina doctrine
effect" Vietnam
War

U.S. aid to Gulf of

Rise of the
South Tonkin
Viet Cong
Vietnam incident
Causes of the
Anti-War
Movement
High School students, College
students, and Minorities were being
drafted into the war
Lack of progress being made
Great number of casualties
Military spending was taking money
from social programs
Lyndon B Johnson sent troops to
Vietnam in 1965
 Major Groups Involved
Groups Involved
African and Latin americans
Students and Teachers
Church groups
Great society supporters
Veterans
People Involved
Dr. Benjamin Spock, William Solane
Coffin Jr., Stephen Spiro, Rennie
Davis
Reasons
Minorities were conscripted
more and given more dangerous
roles
Students were being targeted for
the draft
Church groups detested the war
due to moral reasons
Great society supporters stated
the war used up federal resources
Veterans stated that the war
lacked a objective and was
becoming unwinnable
 Organizations
SANE (Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy): Early critic of U.S Military
intervention in Vietnam, organized largest anti war demonstration on November
1965 which not only protested the Vietnam War but also confronted issues of
civil rights and poverty

CNVA (Committee for Nonviolent Action): On June 1965, Organized a sit-in at

the Oakland Army Base, requested to visit and give gifts to soldiers but were
denied and later arrested after refusing to leave

WSP (Women's Strike for Peace): On May 1967, led the Jeannette Rankin
Brigade which demanded that congress withdraw troops, make reparations to
the Vietnamese, and "refuse the insatiable demands of the military industrial
complex"
Forms of Protest
Goals of the anti war movement
Withdraw of troops from
Vietnam
End of the draft
Begining of peace talks between
North and South Vietnam
Agenda revolved around
promoting pacifism and
demanding an end to military
intervention in Vietnam.
 Effects of the Anti-War
Movement
Withdrawal of troops from Vietnam

Deterred the U.S. military from intervening

overseas for three decades, known as "Vietnam
Syndrome"

Still, the anti-war movement did force the

United States to sign a peace treaty, withdraw
its remaining forces, and end the draft in early
1973.
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HISTORY/SHEG-Materials/12-0-Culture--Civil-Rights/12.5%20Anti-
Vietnam%20War%20Movement%20Documents%20-%20Worksheet.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War

https://www.ushistory.org/us/55d.asp#:~:text=As%20the%20war%20dragged%20on,on
%20moral%20and%20economic%20grounds.

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/us-anti-vietnam-war-movement-1964-
1973/#:~:text=Over%20a%20decade%20of%20organizing,writing%20campaigns%3B%2
0destruction%20of%20draft

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