1. By: Adam Heaston, Kari Ward, Danielle Crown, and Megan Woodward
Anti- war Protests
By: Adam Heaston,
Kari Ward, Danielle Crown, and Megan Woodward

2. The US wages total war against North Vietnam
The Year of 1964
After the Gulf of Tonkin incident, congress authorized President Johnson to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression."
The US wages total war against North Vietnam

3. 1964
Location of the Vietnam War
Ships starting the Vietnam War.

4. The Year of 1965
In February of 1965, Bombing raids on North Vietnam commence.
The air raids continued for the next three years.
These bombing raids are referred to as 'Operation Rolling Thunder'.

5. Air raids or other wise known as Rolling Thunder in North Vietnam.
Air Raids of1965
Air raids or other wise known as Rolling Thunder in North Vietnam.

6. The Year of 1966
On July 3rd, 1966, 4,000 demonstrated against the U.S. war in London outside the U.S. Embassy. A large number of citizens who assembled were arrested.

7. The Start of The Protest
Many citizens gathered to show their protest against the war in 1966.

8. The Year of 1967
As the American protests against the US policy in Vietnam continue, Martin Luther King openly expressed support for the antiwar movement on moral grounds.

9. The Year of 1968
Operation Rolling Thunder comes to an end. Government officials began protesting the war.
President Johnson’s advisors began to oppose the war, causing LBJ to withdrawal from the presidential race on March 31. Peaceful forms of protests were becoming challenging.

10. The Year of 1969
This was the start of a less cohesive antiwar movement. Most Americans pragmatically opposed escalating the U.S. role in Vietnam, believing the economic cost too high.
In November of 1969 a second march on Washington drew an estimated 500,000 participants.

11. The Year of 1970
The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
The Kent State shootings occurred on May 4, 1970 at Kent State University in Kent Ohio. The shooting involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.

12. Kent State Shootings of 1970
On April 30th, President Nixon had announced some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign.
Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

13. Response to Kent Shootings
Hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students which further affected the public opinion over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.

14. The Year of 1971
The Capitol building in Washington is damaged by a bomb planted in protest of the invasion of Laos.

15. The Year of 1972
On April 19, 1972, students at many colleges and universities around the country broke into campus buildings and threatened strikes. The following weekend, protests were held in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

16. The Year of 1973
Due to public protests, President Nixon was under such great pressure he was forced to pull the last American troops out of Vietnam in August of 1973.

17. Almost the End- 1974
President Nixon resigned due to the Water Gate Scandal. New President, Gerald Ford, wanted to increase military aide to the faltering Saigon regime.

18. Congress refused his requests to what it saw as pouring more money and lives away. The struggle of the American minds was over, for there would be no more Americans in Vietnam.

19. The End
Vietnam War ends!