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An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. The term anti-war can also refer to pacifism , which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts, or to anti-war books, paintings, and other works of art.
Voting age lowered to 18. Withdrawal of troops and aid. Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1965 against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War. These demonstrations grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years.
List of protests against the Vietnam War. Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam in April 1968. Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The majority of the protests were in the United States, but some took place ...
NY's history of protests and activism spans from the American Revolution, women's suffrage and civil rights to anti-war movements across decades. NY college protests helped shape anti-Vietnam War ...
Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...
Growing protest movement. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969, [1] followed a month later, on November 15, 1969, by a large Moratorium March in Washington, D.C.
500+ protestors 100+ other civilians 152 police officers. The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August ...
100–1,700+ protesters. The protest began on September 12, 2002, and raged on throughout the Iraq War from March 2003, until December 2011. Beginning in late 2002 and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world.