The Vietnam war divided America like no other issue in it`s history.
Every family was impacted by the war, losing husbands, sons, daughters, and friends.
Over 50,000 Americans were killed.
Those who returned suffered deep physical and emotional scars.
Many took their own lives.
Others ended on the streets among the homeless.
Close to 2 million Vietnamese died.
It was actually when President Johnson began his massive bombings against North Vietnam in 1965, that the Antiwar Movement actually gained momentum.
The anti-war movement was mostly led by the young, who were also the victims of the Draft, and were the ones coming home in body bags.
College and university campuses began to organise protests against the war.
Rallies and marches were held.
The first protest march is believed to have been in Washington in April, 1965.
Celebrities like Jane Fonda, Jimi Hendrix, Abbie Hoffmann, Timothy Leary, Jefferson Airplane, and others took up the Anti-war cause.
GI’s stationed overseas began supporting the Anti-war movement.
100,000 Anti-war protesters in New York.
Urban riots in Detroit.
There was a backlash against the military.
Soldiers returning home from war were regarded as baby killers.
Young men sought to evade the draft.
Woodstock concert brought 500,000 together in a non-violent protest against the war.
Kent State student protest of 1970, turned deadly when National Guardsman fired into crowds, killing 4 students.
Students across the country became angry.
The Anti-war protests probably resulted in bringing the war to an earlier conclusion, and helped curb American miliatry ambitions.
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