POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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national attention for a third-party presidential candidate
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mass demonstrations by groups protesting the war
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mandatory rationing of consumer goods
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public support for an expanded military draft
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Detailed explanation-1: -Early organized opposition was led by American Quakers in the 1950s, and by November 1960 eleven hundred Quakers undertook a silent protest vigil–the group “ringed the Pentagon for parts of two days". Protests bringing attention to “the draft” began on May 5, 1965.
Detailed explanation-2: -They marched by the thousands, on campuses from coast to coast. At different times they chose different targets: the Pentagon, Presidents Nixon and Johnson, the draft, Dow Chemical. But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong.
Detailed explanation-3: -Five American soldiers were killed in Vietnam during 1960. South Vietnamese armed forces numbered 146, 000 regulars and 97, 000 militia. They suffered 2, 223 killed in action. The number of VC combatants, counting both full-time and part-time guerrillas, was estimated at 15, 000.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin resolution provided the justification for further U.S. escalation of the conflict in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-5: -The antiwar movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted.