WAR PROTESTORS - AMERICAN

Title: American Vietnam War Protestors.

By: Dana Gebel and Karina Dib

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INTRODUCTION

One of the most controversial events on American history and Americans’ lives was the involvement in the Vietnam War. With hopes of abolishing communism and preserve peoples’ rights, The United States got involved in a war that caused troubles not only at the battle field but at home too.

A group of people started an antiwar movement to open the government’s eyes and put and end to the war. What they found was violence and rejection from their own brothers.

QUESTIONS

The Vietnam War was the longest military conflict in US. History. The Hostilities in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia claimed the lives of more then ____________ Americans.
The Anti-Vietnam War movement was not a pro-peace movement, it was an ____________________.
How many estimated people where killed by the war __________ , while_____________ where wounded.
On the evening of April 30^th1970, in a televised address to the nation, Richard M. Nixon, the thirty seventh President of the United States announced an imminent attack against ______________________
Communist Vietnamese honor _____________ the war protestor, as a hero in their victory over the United States in Vietnam War.