antiwar+movement+notes

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Vietnam War Protest lyrics:

media type="youtube" key="RD7s4i_X-p0" height="385" width="480" Jimi Hendrix's famous and innovative cover of All Along the Watchtower, originally by Bob Dylan

 "There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,  "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.  Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,  None of them along the line know what any of it is worth." - All Along the Watchtower, lyrics by Bob Dylan, made famous by Jimi Hendrix

 media type="youtube" key="3jFbf3KPkp8" height="385" width="480"  Ohio, by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, written in response to the Kent State Shootings in 1970.

 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming  We're finally on our own  This summer I hear the drumming  Four dead in Ohio - Ohio, by CSNY

At least **5** different **images that symbolize the antiwar movement** []
 * 4** different and detailed **reasons why people began to protest** the war in Vietnam
 * Some people opposed the war because of the use of chemical weapons by the United States on the Vietnamese.
 * Many people opposed the war because they heard that the U.S. soldiers were torturing their prisoners. Some said the crimes were not unlike what the Nazis did to people in WWII.
 * Young men opposed the war because they felt that the draft had taken away their right to decide whether or not they wanted to fight for their country.
 * People, especially African Americans, opposed the war because of the cost. The war was costing the U.S. over $66 million a day and the poorer people didn't like that.
 * 3** different and detailed **methods people used to protest** the war
 * Pacifists that opposed the war, actually burned themselves in protest of the war.
 * Some young men chose to burn their draft cards in protest of the war. Most were prosecuted for doing so.
 * Some black men opposed being drafted by having riots. They believed that black people shouldn't be fighting overseas when he should be fighting in Mississippi for his equality.
 * 3** descriptions of **different people or groups of people who protested** the war in Vietnam
 * One group who protested the war was Civil Rights leaders and black people. They believed that the poor people were the most likely to be sent to Vietnam and were upset at the cost of the war.
 * Veterans who had come back before the war ended protested the war also. They publicly threw away the medals they won for being in Vietnam.
 * Even current soldiers protested the war. Over 503,926 soldiers deserted from the army. Soldiers thought the war was very immoral and thought they were dieing in vain.

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