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What were two groups in the United States that protested against the Vietnam War?

2006-10-03 18:41:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Military

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War
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2006-10-03 18:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Gretch 6 · 0 4

The war in Iraq is lot like the war in Vietnam, it was the north viet cong against the south. The north are communists and the south was propped up by the US and we wanted a free Democratic government there. It failed because the general population of Vietnam wanted there own form of government. After all the blood shed the US and collation forces had to tuck their tail between there legs and run home with a bloody nose. Feel very strongly the same will happen in Iraq

2016-03-27 04:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

1965
On March 24, the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized the first teach-in against the war at the University of Michigan, attended by 2,500 participants. This was to be repeated at 35 campuses across the country.
On April 17, the SDS and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington DC, with about 25,000 protesters.
1966
In February, a group of about 100 veterans attempted to return their decorations to the White House in protest of the war, but were turned back.
1967
February 8 - Christian groups opposed to the war staged a nationwide "Fast for Peace".
March 25 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King led a march of 5,000 against the war in Chicago, Illinois.
On April 15, 400,000 people marched to the UN building in New York City to protest the war, where they were addressed by critics of the war such as Benjamin Spock, Martin Luther King, and Jan Barry Crumb, a veteran of the conflict. On the same date 100,000 marched in San Francisco.
On April 24, Abbie Hoffman led a small group of protesters against both the war and capitalism who interrupted the New York Stock Exchange, causing chaos by throwing fistfuls of both real and fake dollars down from the gallery.
On May 30 Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C., and on June 1 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was born.
October 1967
large demonstration took place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As many as 100,000 demonstrators attended the event, and at least 30,000, led by the Yippies, later marched to the Pentagon for an all night vigil
1969
The Moratorium demonstrations took place on October 15, 1969. Millions of Americans took the day off from work and school to participate in local demonstrations against the war. These were the first major demonstrations against the Nixon administration's handling of the war.
1970
Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest, Washington, D.C. A week after the Kent State Shootings, on 4 May, 100,000 anti-war demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C. to protest the shooting of the students in Ohio and the Nixon administration's incursion into Cambodia. Even though the demonstration was quickly put together, protestors were still able to bring out thousands to march in the Capital. It was an almost spontaneous response to the events of the previous week. Police ringed the White House with buses to block the demonstrators from getting too close to the executive mansion. Early in the morning before the march, Nixon met with protestors briefly at the Lincoln Memorial but nothing was resolved and the protest went on as planned.
The Chicano Moratorium: on 29 August, 1970, 25,000 Mexican-Americans participated in the largest anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles. Police attacked with clubs and guns. Three people were killed. Ruben Salazar, KMEX news director and Los Angeles Times reporter was killed

2006-10-03 18:57:55 · answer #3 · answered by newrabbit 2 · 0 1

The Worker's World Party, who happen to be Stalinists claims they were the first to do so in 1962. A lot of other communist splinter groups have made similar claims.

2006-10-03 18:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by ddey65 4 · 3 0

The Black Panthers and the Yippies

2006-10-03 18:50:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Communist sympathizers like the Weather Underground and SDS.

2006-10-03 18:55:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4 1

Wimps and cowards.

2006-10-03 18:48:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

LIBERALS AND COMMUNISTS

2006-10-03 23:28:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

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