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

Vietnamese people prepared to do battle with their new adversary

bombings of Northern Vietnam continued once again.

for there would be no more Vietnams in the near future. ( VN H. and

crucial factor in decision making on the war. Johnson withdrew his

contributed to President Johnson's decision to present a major Vietnam

points being the mass demonstrations by the college students across

invasion of Cambodia in the spring of 1970. (Lewis, 83).

Vietnamese to fight on long enough to the point that Americans

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