Is There Sufficient Evidence In Sources A-F To Suggest Why There Was An Anti-War Movement?

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Laura M.

Is there sufficient evidence in Sources A to F to explain why there was an anti war movement in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s?

In March 1968 President Johnson announced that he would not be running for the Presidency. The Secretary of Defence quit in 1961. He said that the bombing was pointless and should be stopped – this event more than likely encouraged the anti-war movement. All the events in the sources contributed to the anti-war movement in some way, Huge Protest marches occurred in 1969, 1970 and 1971, almost half a million people took part in it. The Vietnam War veterans (people who had fought in Vietnam and had quit or had accidents, or finished their tour of duty.) This paper is supposed to show whether there was sufficient information in the following sources to have led to the anti-war movement.

Source A explains about the pressures of being in the army and comments on things that could have contributed to the anti-war movement because the book was based on real events but you could also be led to think that the information isn’t reliable. The author of the book ‘Four Hours In My Lai’ was Michael Bilton. The source would have been very effective in helping the anti-war movement had it been around in that time period.  I think the audience was later generations of American people who were possible relatives to people involved in the Vietnam War.

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Source B pictures naked children running away from soldiers, they were some of the many victims of napalm, it was published during the war. The people who saw this source would almost definitely side with the anti-war movement but it wasn’t very widely published so it wouldn’t have contributed much. In people’s eyes they would see that the army had gone too far hurting innocent people (including children) and would probably consider joining the anti-war movement. I think the audience was meant for any one who is old enough in America and maybe in England to protest against the ...

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