In what ways were the following reasons important in the growth of the peace Movement in America?

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In what ways were the following reasons important in the growth of the peace Movement in America?

Experience in Vietnam

Agent Orange and Napalm

Blanket Bombing

MyLai

Peace Movement 1968-73

Opposition to the war in the United States developed after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, mainly among traditional pacifists and antinuclear activists. Early protests were organized around questions about the morality of US involvement in Vietnam. Every key event of the war, including the Tet Offensive and the invasion of Cambodia, contributed to a steady rise in antiwar sentiment. The MyLai Massacre in 1969 caused a dramatic turn against the war in national polls.

There were a vast variety of people involved in the peace movement, especially after the Tet offensive, as pacifists no longer made up the majority of protestors. Vietnam Veterans now opposed the war because of the atrocities they had seen, friends they saw die or the injuries they had incurred. African Americans were angered by the fact that they were fighting a war for America when they were discriminated against and had no common rights. Many African Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr protested because of oppression. At the time of the peace movement the world was seeing the Hippie emergence, and as Hippies oppose violence, they joined in the protests. Many US soldiers were killed; most of which were young men whose parents had sent them to war proud, these parents of dead soldiers protested to end the war too. Finally, The government was spending more than $2 billion per month on the war by 1967. Totaling $130 billion by the end. To try and compensate for this drain in money, taxes were raised. So tax payers became angry and they joined the peace movement

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Some historians point to the Tet Offensive in early 1968 as the major turning point for increased anti-war sentiment in the US, even though Vietcong forces were severely decimated in their countrywide attacks. This was because the Vietnam Conflict turned into a “TV war” and the public began to see images of what was happening there. And even though the Tet Offensive was a military success for America, the people took no notice of it. They instead took notice of pictures of dead civilians, injured and deformed children, and video footage of NFL troops inside the American embassy. These images ...

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