Opposition to the war

Question 1

Who was Norman Morrison?

Answer 1

2 Nov 1965 he burned himself outside the pentagon deliberately copying a buddhist monk to show opposition to the war

Question 2

How did wayne morose show opposition to the war?

Answer 2

spoke against the war even before 1965 he gave the only speech in the senate against the gulf of tonkin resolution

Question 3

What were opinion polls?

Answer 3

most regular was Gallup Polls

they ran regularly and coved a variety of questions about vietnam

Question 4

How did Politicians show opposition?

Answer 4

reacted when an issue was significant enough to affect voters
as a result their views might be a useful measure of public opinion

Question 5

How did demonstration show opposition to the war?

Answer 5

their size and the specific issues they targeted showed the opinion of the public towards the war

Question 6

What short term factors affected opposition?

Answer 6

events in vietnam such as the TET OFFENSIVE

or presidential policy changes such as INVADING CAMBODIA

Question 7

What long term factors affected opposition?

Answer 7

rising death toll
loss of serious injury of family members
length of the war

Question 8

What other factors affected Opposition?

Answer 8

cost of the war
student movement
the draft
media

Question 9

What did the students want?

Answer 9

rejected the values of their parents and wanted social change and became part of the “counter-culture”

Question 10

What methods did the student council use?

Answer 10

they held sittings
boycotts
went on strike refusing to go to classes
protest demonstrations and marches

Question 11

Did the movement get any attention?

Answer 11

they got media attention

and got involved in a growing spiral of violence

Question 12

Who were the SDS?

Answer 12

Student democratic society which were set up in 1960

by 1965 it had 3000 members 1965 they gave their first statements against the war

Question 13

What was the draft?

Answer 13

compulsory service in the military forces
those elected were sent draft cards telling them where and when to report
men were drafted from the age of 18

Question 14

Why was there opposition to the draft?

Answer 14

felt as if it was unfair
argued that the draftees were too young
not well enough trained
poor families were least able to avoid the draft

Question 15

What was the draft system changed to in 1969?

Answer 15

to a lottery system
men born from 1944-1950 were given a random number according to their date of birth
each time more soldiers were needed a number was drawn for the draft the next year

Question 16

How could you avoid the draft?

Answer 16

college student could delay it until they graduated
clergymen and student training to work in churches
some workers in government,farmers
only son of a family
physically and mentally unfit

Question 17

How did the media impact the Americans?

Answer 17

The vietnam war was the only war that allowed reporters to travel with the troops into war zones so it was on the TV one reporter said the tet offensive looked unwinnable whereas the gov said it was successful this made Americans go against the gov

Question 18

What was the Mai Lai Massacre in 1968?

Answer 18

16 March 1968
charlie Company were sent to the village of My Lai and briefed that they would come under VC fire and destroy them only but
this did not happened there was only women,children and old men in the village and they killed them

Question 19

Who lead the troops and what were they ordered to do?

Answer 19

Despite knowing this Lieutenant Calley killed all the people and animal and the photographer with them took photos
they said they had been ordered to kill everyone in the village

Question 20

What happened immediately after the massacre?

Answer 20

military announced a successful mission
my Lai VC Bases destroyed and 128 Vc were killed
soldiers and helicopters pilot who were there reported the massacre to army officers
Chiefs from nearby villagers also reported the army massacre of hundreds of civilians

Question 21

What did the army do?

Answer 21

organized a quick cover up

after a quick investigation it announced 20 accidental civilians death during the mission

Question 22

Who tried to expose the cover up?

Answer 22

a solider collected eye witness and sent it to key US Politian’s to expose the cover up in 1969

Question 23

When was the cover up questioned and what happened?

Answer 23

15 July 1970 it reported the army was covering the massacre up and what really happened and then on 5 sept 1970 Calley was charged with murder

Question 24

What happened on the 13 Nov 1970?

Answer 24

diff newspaper reported the massacre

reporters collected eye winess testimony that over 500 civilian had been killed

Question 25

When was Calley trialed?

Answer 25

29 march 1971 he was convicted for killing 22 civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment

Question 26

What did Nixon say about Calley case?

Answer 26

3 April Nixon said he would review cally case himself
he said calley should be confined at his US military base not in prison
he was released after 3 and a half years under house arrest in his military base

Question 27

When/what were the Kent state shooting?

Answer 27

4 May 1970 Ohio national guardsmen shot four unarmed soldiers during a protest against the Vietnam war .2 of the dead were not protestors

Question 28

What happened on friday 1 May

Answer 28

a group of students decided to bury a copy of the US constituent as a protest and one them who fought in the war wanted to bury his discharged papers to

Question 29

What happened on 2nd/3rd May?

Answer 29

fight between pro-war and anti war group
2nd may several demonstrations
2nd of may evening the Officer Training corps building campus was burned
mayor declared an emergency and 500 officers came with rifle and tear gas
3 May more demonstration which were broken by the tear gas

Question 30

What could the guards not break off?

Answer 30

4 may officials banned demonstration planned for 12am but it was ignored
guards could not break up the demonstrations with tear gas and students threw empty gas cannisters

Question 31

Who were the dovesand the hakes?

Answer 31

DOVES-Those who pushed for war to end

HAWKS-Pro-war

Question 32

How did international relations cause political opposition?

Answer 32

The war was a wider political problem because of the possibility of starting a war with the USSR or China
growing criticism from other nations

Question 33

How did the war in vietnam cause political oppostion?

Answer 33

NV know we’ll go and they’ll still be here
limited war may prevent the war from developing into a conflict with the USSR and Chin but wont defeat NV
We cant tell our enemies from our allies
we’re struggling to fight against the guerilla war

Question 34

When did the Gulf of tonkin repeal?

Answer 34

24 June 1970 so the presidents didn’t have to consult congress when making decisions about the war

Question 35

when was the limit seton funding?

Answer 35

30 June was the cut-off point for any involvement in Cambodia
1971 was when all troops were to withdraw
congress refused to give as much funding after the Paris peace accords which made the south Vietnamese gov collapse faster

Question 36

Why did USA get world wide opposition?

Answer 36

Because they were helping a corrupted regime and were fighting a war with shockingly high civilian death toll even though they were a democratic nation