1. Vietnam Peace Protests
By Timothy Fields, Alex Bower, and Booth Vogel

2. The Vietnam Peace Protests lead to the social changes in the United States. The protests glamourized anti-establishment movements and lead to the rise of an independent youth culture.
Argument

3. Vietnam War Fought from 1959 to 1975
U.S. Military action to prevent spread of Communist Northern Vietnam (containment policy)
Operation Flaming Dart in ‘65
Tet Offensive and Mai Lai in ’68
Vietnam War

5. Media Coverage of graphic images and US military massacres on unarmed civilians in Vietnam
Large U.S. death toll
Draft of 1968 which forced many students and teachers to serve in the war
Reasons for Protests

6. Small protests around the country began in college campuses began around 1965
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized most demonstrations
Hippies joined students and led to more a widespread embrace of drug and music culture
Early Protests

8. Kent State Shooting May 4, 1970
Protesting college students were shot by the Ohio National Guard, resulting in the death of four students and the injury of nine others
Resulted in a strike of over 4 million students in colleges around the country
Kent State Shooting

10. 35,000 Vietnam protesters camped in front of the Washington Monument in 1971
Became violent because of how previous non-violent actions had failed
President Nixon called in 10,000 federal troops, resulting in fighting and the arrest of hundreds
March on Washington

12. In Woodstock, New York hundreds of thousands of people, mostly students and hippies, for a three day music festival.
The festival was centered around anti-establishment and anti-war music.
Musicians included Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Country Joe and the Fish
Woodstock

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