Counterculture of the 1960s - Mc5, Opposition to the U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War, Youth International Party, Mantra-Rock Dance, Head, Cafe C (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: MC5, Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Youth International Party, Mantra-Rock Dance, Head, Cafe church, Billy Jack, The Strawberry Statement, Diggers, The Trial of Billy Jack, The LSD Story, New Worlds, Berkeley in the Sixties, Commune. Excerpt: The Vietnam anti-war movement in the United States began with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in strength in later years. The US became polarized between those who advocated for continued involvement in Vietnam and those who wanted peace. Opposition groups sprang from the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-nuclear movement; they contributed to second-wave feminism, the environmental movement, and the New Left. The anti-war and peace movements consisted largely of college and graduate students, and mothers, as well as anti-establishment "hippies." Their opposition events ranged from peaceful nonviolent demonstrations to radical displays of violence. Public support for the war decreased as the war waged on throughout the sixties and beginning part of the 1970s. William L. Lunch and Peter W. Sperlich collected public opinion data measuring support for the war from 1965-1971. Support for the war was measured by a negative response to the question: "In view of developments since we entered the fighting in Vietnam, do you think the U.S. made a mistake sending troops to fight in Vietnam?" They found the following results. After May 1971 Gallup stopped asking this question. The reasons behind American opposition to the Vietnam War fall into the following main categories: opposition to the draft; moral, legal, and pragmatic arguments against U.S. intervention; reaction to the media portrayal of the devastation in Southeast Asia. The Draft, as a system of conscription which threatened lower class registrants and middle class registrants alike, drove much of the...