By: Kamil, Franco , Ali, Nick, and Eric
Hawks and Doves
Hawks and Doves were terms applied to people based upon their views about a military conflict. This divided the country into 2 sections that were for and against war.
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The Draft
A draft dodger or draft resister is someone who evades a national military conscription, also known as a draft. As a general rule, the term “draft dodger” is used in a pejorative way, to describe someone who shirks on his or her duty, which is why many people who choose to evade the draft prefer to be called draft evaders or draft resisters. Draft dodgers attracted a great deal of public attention in the 1960s, when some drafted Americans choose to hide or flee rather than be sent to fight in the Vietnam War.
The Impact of the Tet Offensive
At the end of the Tet Offensive, both sides had endured losses, and both sides claimed victory. The U.S. and South Vietnamese military response almost completely eliminated the NLF forces and regained all of the lost territory.
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Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)was a radical student organization of the 1960s. The organization, founded in 1960, presented its vision for post–Vietnam War America and called for students to join in a movement to establish "participatory democracy."
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
SNCC’s emergence as a force in the southern civil rights movement came largely through the involvement of students in the 1961 Freedom Rides, designed to test a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel facilities unconstitutional. |
1968 Democratic Rally
- The democratic party held a rally in Chicago in 1998
- Outnumbered by law enforcement by five to one, 589 people would be arrested while the Democrats met in August, and many more injured.
- A legal rally in Grant Park ended when the police clubbed a teenager who was lowering an American flag, and others who tried to protect him.
- Mayor Richard J. Daley called out 7,500 members of the Illinois National Guard to reinforce the 12,000 police officers. Wednesday night they tried to remove everyone -- mostly party volunteers, candidate supporters and tourists -- from Michigan Avenue in front of the Hilton hotel, which was the convention headquarters
- These unlucky people were pushed through plate glass windows when caught between Guard and police as they dispersed the crowd.
Kent State Shootings
On May 4, 1970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.
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National Student Strike
Anti-war Chants
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