was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history.

The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950

when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of

France's war against the Viet Minh. Later, the presidencies of Dwight

Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic,

and military commitments steadily throughout the fifties and early

sixties in the Indochina region. Prominent senators had already begun

criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer of

1964, which led to the mass antiwar movement that was to appear in the

summer of 1965. This antiwar movement had a great impact on policy and

practically forced the US out of Vietnam.

Starting with teach-ins during the spring of 1965, the massive

antiwar efforts centered on the colleges, with the students playing

leading roles. These teach-ins were mass public demonstrations,

usually held in the spring and fall seasons. By 1968, protesters

numbered almost seven million with more than half being white youths

in the college. The teach-in movement was at first, a gentle app

by the informed public. Through constant dissident, experts in the

ultimately contributed to the redirection of the American policy in

the participants tried to march the various government grounds, most

It is now clear that the antiwar movement and antiwar criticism in the

notion that "they in Washington have created." (Small 164 ). Thus,

This movement against the Northern bombings, and domestic critics in

intentions accurately, his own records reveal almost no discussion of

disagreements about the major events of protest. They began with

Kissinger, the most important Vietnam policymaker asked a group of

inadvertently helped Richard Nixon win the election. As Johnson's

from the beginning of the US involvement in Indochina's affairs, the

Antiwar activists carried on through the pause with their own

address at Johns Hopkins University on April 7, 1965. The address

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