COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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WWII
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Cold War
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Korean War
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Vietnam War
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Detailed explanation-1: -The October 1967 Pentagon riot, the first national protest against the war, exemplified the agonizingly divisive debate over Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first major protests began in 1964 and quickly gained strength as the war escalated. Starting at the University of Michigan, “teach-ins” on the Vietnam War modeled after seminars raising consciousness in support of the Civil Rights Movement, brought in thousands of participants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anti-War March on Washington. Image Source: The King Center. April 17, 1965 was the largest anti-war protest to have been held in Washington, D.C. up to that time. The number of marchers (15, 000–25, 000) was close to the number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam at the time (less than 25, 000).
Detailed explanation-4: -Soon Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) became prominent opponents of the Vietnam War, and Bevel became the director of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.