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. What is the U.S. Role in Vietnam?
CONTAINMENT – Keep Communism from expanding (by George Keenan)
Imperialism = foreign control (colonization)
Saigon = Capital of South 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 Vietnamese children are running past and looking at the charred and dismembered bodies.

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

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, 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!"

17. Why would people support the War?

18. Fear of Communist Expansion
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)

19. How far is too far?

20. Why was he involved?

21. 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

22. Vietnam Memorials in DC

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