Antiwar+Movemant


 * **4** different and detailed reasons **why** **people began to protest the war in Vietnam**
 * 1) Teach-ins at universities and churches spread the word that the war was wrong and the US had no business butting their head in a civil war halfway around the world.
 * 2) The draft led to many Americans being sent to there death and many more fearing for their loved ones lives. This caused chaos and outbreaks in the streets of many cities
 * 3) Returning veterans began to speak out against the war, carrying on opposition that started overseas while serving.
 * 4) Killings of students in oppositions to the war gained national attention and only helped spread the anti-war feelings.
 * 5) Expensive in lives (bodycount) and money
 * 6) People could experience the war from their own living room and see what was happening
 * **3** different and detailed **methods people used to protest** the war
 * 1) Teach-ins were held to gain support and let people know what was happening with the war overseas
 * 2) Protest organizations were formed to march on certain cities in large groups and protest together. They attempted to focus they nations view on the governments corrupt abuse of power
 * 3) Hippie protests were often open minded concerts and experimenting with drugs. They were against the war for many reasons such as it didn't show love, and definitely wasn't a peaceful war in which very few died.
 * **3** descriptions of **different people or groups of people who protested** the war in Vietnam
 * 1) Hippies protested against the war because it "went against the flow man". They were for peace love and harmony and war in general didn't fit these terms and Vietnam wasn't your normal war.
 * 2) People such as Tom Hayden led protests. He was a leader in the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement. Tom exemplified the radicalized the middle class college student during Vietnam . He was one of many students that was coordinated to become an activist against the war nationally.
 * 3) The Weathermen advocated violence to change the nation's views about the war in Vietnam. At first they used petitions and draft resistance training but these only raised opposition to the war, not changed government policies. They organized more than 600 people to enter into violent protests in Chicago and they caught the attention of the FBI because of their arson and bombings that went against the government.