War Protest Did you know that in 1965 to early 1970s there was a mecca for young Americans? It was called the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco. They were opposed to the Vietnam War, but they weren’t satisfied with the institution and established culture. They wanted something new-the members shared living spaces and even experimented, sexually. The nearly 250,000 members only did this to share different lifestyle and ownership. These were also members of the war protest, they helped to stop the war but aside of stopping the war these were a few things they did during their community. The war protests helped create a community intent on the anti-war movement that gathered several followers who all protested to stop the war.
The anti-war movement began mainly on college campuses. Their organization was slowly getting bigger; they were being heard by other communities and by the people. The community that started this movement called themselves members of the leftist organization (Super 908). In 1965, the small organization …show more content…
A lot of people were injured and killed during the war and when the protesters were doing their acts of wanting the violence and the war to end. October 21, 1967 there was 100,000 protestors and four students were killed by the guard troops because they wanted to demonstrate against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia (Super 910). More than 58,000 people were killed or had gone missing during the war, 527 were wounded, and this cost the U.S. twenty-five billion dollars as a result. When the war was coming to an end there was about two thousand communities and over 250,000 members. There was a great extent of the countryside that was left poor and unusable because of all the bombings, and land mines. An estimation of 2 million North and South Vietnamese civilians have been killed, along with a 1.1 million Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters, about 200,000-250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers have
The anti-war movement began mainly on college campuses. Their organization was slowly getting bigger; they were being heard by other communities and by the people. The community that started this movement called themselves members of the leftist organization (Super 908). In 1965, the small organization …show more content…
A lot of people were injured and killed during the war and when the protesters were doing their acts of wanting the violence and the war to end. October 21, 1967 there was 100,000 protestors and four students were killed by the guard troops because they wanted to demonstrate against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia (Super 910). More than 58,000 people were killed or had gone missing during the war, 527 were wounded, and this cost the U.S. twenty-five billion dollars as a result. When the war was coming to an end there was about two thousand communities and over 250,000 members. There was a great extent of the countryside that was left poor and unusable because of all the bombings, and land mines. An estimation of 2 million North and South Vietnamese civilians have been killed, along with a 1.1 million Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters, about 200,000-250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers have