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Lucas Johnson 8th-hour English 2/27/24 Anti-Vietnam The war in Vietnam started in 1954 and ended in 1975. The main reason why the Americans joined the war was due to the Truman Doctrine to prevent communism from spreading out from the USSR and China. The desire of North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, was to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after that of the Soviet Union. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. But once the U.S. joined the war and started to take losses a lot of people joined the protests to leave due to a ton of people believing that there was no point to us being there and how many Americans we were losing in the jungle and how much funding they were putting to it even though it seemed we were losing it. People also hated how cruel and not caring the government and military were to the Vietnamese civilians. People started to protest in many ways including songs, posters, and large protests. The anti-war protests truly started in 1965 due to the U.S. new plan of rolling thunder, which was flying over bits of the jungles in Vietnam and dropping napalm onto everything and anything even civilian towns due to the civilian casualties people started to protest against the war and voiced their angry at the government. The main person who did the first major protest against Vietnam was William Sewell who organized a well-attended antiwar teach-in on the University of Wisconsin at Madison campus on 1965 April 1st, reflecting his belief that the U.S. doesn't have "any business over there"(Spector) in Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. publicly denounced the war in a speech in New York in April 1967. In the end, the Anti-Vietnam protests did their job and managed to make the president of the U.S. start to pull troops out of the war in a process called Vietnamization, and in 1973, the final U.S. troops pulled out of Vietnam and allowed the South Vietnamese to take over the war effort. How the Anti-Vietnam protests affect us today is that they suspended the draft due to how many people didn't want to do it and how many just burned the draft card that was given to them. It also created various protest songs and showed that protests are a good or effective way of stopping what you are protesting.

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