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Essay Archive - Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 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 i....
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