Transcript Where is Vietnam? - Lincoln Park High School

Vietnam Protest: Introduction
1. TV coverage brought the Vietnam War into
people’s homes.
2. Both Hawks (people who supported the
war) and Doves (people who preferred
peace) criticized how the war was fought.
3. Student groups and others built the anti-war
movement.
Vietnam Protest: Introduction
4. Martin Luther King Jr. thought resources could be
better spent on ending poverty. He also thought
the war sent too many young men of color to fight
and die.
5. Some people protested by burning the American
flag, occupying buildings and burning their
draft cards.
6. President Kennedy & President Johnson’s
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara even
began to doubt the success of the war and the
strategy of sending more troops to Vietnam.
Where is Vietnam?
The Vietnam War: Why Protest?
A picture is worth a thousand words.
What is the U.S. Role in Vietnam?
Accused of
imperialism by
protesters.
Imperialism - a policy
or practice by which a
country increases its
power by gaining
control over other
areas of the world
Is this your neighbor?
Who are we fighting?
The US had taken the position of opposing the spread of
communism in the world. American troops became involved
in the war in Vietnam, where the Vietnamese had won their
independence from the French a few years earlier
Why is he doing this?
• Passers-by stop to
watch as flames
envelope a young
Buddhist monk,
Saigon, October
5th, 1963.
Is protest worth your own life?
• Students at Kent
State University
are shot at a protest
on May 4, 1970
Why would people support the War?
How far is too far?
Why was he involved?
Under what
circumstances is protest
or rebellion against the
government acceptable?