The Vietnam conflict and undeclared war brought halfway the world deeply polarized the American society. Most Americans supported early US involvement because sending military advisers to South Vietnam was seen as a way to help continuous spread of communism.
By the mid-1960s, students, religious pacifist and political leftist were outspoken against the war. Teachings were held around the country to spread the message. Colleges became hotbeds of protests as the selective drafted more young Americans enter the conflict. The protests grow more intense. Tens of thousands of marchers converged on the Pentagon. Some public were burned their draft cards.
In 1968, facing growing opposition, President Johnson shocked the nation with the surprise announcement, “I shall not seat and I will not accept denomination of my party for another term as your president.” That summer at the Democratic Convention in Chicago the pot boiled over as city police turned on these protesters with teargas and nightsticks.
The election of Richard Nixon brought the national division over Vietnam into sharp focus as he called the Pan-America’s silent majority to voice their support. In the spring of 1970 President Nixon announced that U.S. forces have entered Cambodia setting up a new way for protest on American campuses.
On May 4 the situation turned deadly as National Guards opened fire on demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio, four students were killed.
By 1970, full showed Americans opposed the war to the one. It would be another three years until the Parish peace of corps and with the withdraw of American troops from Southeast Asia.
And in 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communist North ending a deeply devise of era in two parts of the globe.
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