Protests of Vietnam

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Protests of Vietnam

• The Counterculture

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Anti-War Protests

• Tet Offensive
• Public support drops
• Is it important to the U.S.?
• Teach-ins at colleges against the
  establishment
• Increases draft
• Doves v. Hawks
• Nixon Vietnamization/ Cambodia

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Kent State

• Campus protests violent
• Protesting troops in Cambodia
• Tear gas used to keep in line as well as arrests
• National Guard shoot into crowd killing 4 and
  wounding 9.

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Resistance to War

• Draft resistance movement
• Burn cards
• Canada
• College students deferment
• Claim physical deformities
• Many still support war

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Hippies

• Counterculture go against societys norm
• Dress blue jeans, cotton shirts, love beads,
  head bands, fringe
• Sexual revolution
• Lived in communes
• Love not war

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Drug Culture

• Common among soldiers and students
• Hallucinations, escape from reality,
  self-exploration
• Extreme health risk
• overdose common

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The Music World

• Instrument of Protest
• United the country against war
• New type of rock music
• Lyrics had deep and sometimes symbolic meanings

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Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
Joan Baez
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Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane Rolling Stones The Doors The
Beatles
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Woodstock

• New York
• 400,000 people
• Held in a farmers field
• Major bands performed
• Heat and rain
• Peaceful

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