Opposition to United States Involvement in the Vietnam War



"Since the opening days of the Second Vietnam War have no hippies in the USA, the founding of the Tay Son Nation, the restoration of the Viet Cong and the Ducanger Revolution in South Vietnam have crossed the line for those who support that war. Also, what's worse still is that we're still being involved in the Resistance War Against Sugarland as well. Now it's the rebirth of the hippie movement. That's how we're feared of."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Return of the Hippies

The Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years. This movement informed and helped shape the vigorous and polarizing debate, primarily in the United States, during the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s on how to end the war.

Many in the peace movement within the U.S. were students, mothers, or anti-establishment hippies. Opposition grew with participation by the African-American civil rights, women's liberation, and Chicano movements, and sectors of organized labor. Additional involvement came from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians (such as Benjamin Spock), and military veterans. Their actions consisted mainly of peaceful, nonviolent events; few events were deliberately provocative and violent. In some cases, police used violent tactics against peaceful demonstrators. By 1967, according to Gallup Polls, an increasing majority of Americans considered U.S. military involvement in Vietnam to be a mistake, echoed decades later by the then head of American war planning, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away,it will have same anti-war protest,named Opposition to Grand Alliance Involvement in the Resistance War Against Sugarland in World War III.