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PROTEST AND REBELLION

PROTEST AND REBELLION. THE VIETNAM WAR. Where is Vietnam?. Why are we Here? Sides of Vietnam. Country divided at the 17 th Parallel line North Vietnam = Communist , led by Ho Chi Minh ( VIETCONG ) North supplied by China and Russia South Vietnam = Democratic South backed by USA.

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PROTEST AND REBELLION

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  1. PROTEST AND REBELLION THE VIETNAM WAR

  2. Where is Vietnam?

  3. Why are we Here?Sides of Vietnam • Country divided at the 17th Parallel line • North Vietnam = Communist, led by Ho Chi Minh (VIETCONG) • North supplied by China and Russia • South Vietnam = Democratic • South backed by USA

  4. CONTAINMENT – Keep Communism from expanding (by George Keenan) Imperialism = foreign control (colonization) Saigon = Capital of South Vietnam What is the U.S. Role in Vietnam?

  5. In the US Government • Hawks = wanted war (get involved) • Doves = wanted peace (stay out)

  6. The Vietnam War: Why Protest?

  7. Is this your neighbor?

  8. Who are we fighting? • Civilians lie dead and a South Vietnamese soldier still sits in his jeep after being shot in the head by a team of hit-and-run Vietcong in 1968. Vietnamese children are running past and looking at the charred and dismembered bodies.

  9. Passers-by stop to watch as flames envelope a young Buddhist monk, Saigon, October 5th, 1963. Why is he doing this?

  10. War on TV • First war where Journalists had free access to war zone • USA sees war horror on TV every day with dinner • Propels anti-war sentiment

  11. Is protest worth your own life? SDS – Students for Democratic Society • Organized on College campuses

  12. SNCC – Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee • Civil rights group protested war

  13. War Protests • War very unpopular in USA • Protests explode on College campuses across USA • May 4, 1970 - Kent State shootings • 4 students shot dead by National Guard troops among protesters

  14. DC Under Siege • President’s Johnson & Nixon faced daily pressure • "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?" • "One, two, three, four! We don't want your f***ing war!"

  15. Why would people support the War?

  16. Patriotic Duty • Support Troops in war • Fear of Communist Expansion • COMMUNISM – (Soc. / Econ. System) – Goods held in common by Gov’t, no free market • Stop Dictator (Gov’t Abuses towards people)

  17. How far is too far?

  18. Why was he involved?

  19. Not understand GOALS • No business in Vietnam • Unfair Draft (Poor minorities could not afford to get out of the draft) • War Violence on TV daily • Same men fighting for USA not have basic Civil Rights • Civil Rights Movement & Anti – War movement usually side by side

  20. Vietnam Memorials in DC

  21. Under what circumstances is protest or rebellion against the government acceptable?

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