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1960's
Drugs, long hair, sexual freedom, and anti-establishment laws were everywhere as affluent teenagers and young adults embraced a counterculture fueled by rock music and a yearning for peace. The 1960's was a decade of challenge, change and unrest. It can only be described as an unforgettable era.
The Vietnam war was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought. The divided political opinions tore the United States into two polar directions. The trouble started when the people of North Vietnam wanted to take over South Vietnam. The United States government believed that if communist North Vietnam took over the South, the surrounding countries would also convert to communism. The United States felt threatened by this, so once again, they felt it necessary to stick their nose into other people's business. America then began fighting for South Vietnam. At the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the United States military forces in Vietnam was less than 15,000. However, when Lyndon B. Johnson took over the numbers grew dramatically. By 1966, about 500,000 troops were deployed in Vietnam. Televised reports of the war overseas became intensely gruesome, and showed the severity of the bombing raids by US forces. By this time many political figures even began to speak out against the war and keeping the US troops in Vietnam. On January 30th, 1968, the North Vietnam army over ran Saigon, making a dangerous attack on the United States Embassy. On November 30, 1969, newspapers began reporting about a massacre that US Army troops had killed up to 600 men, women, and children in a small village called My Lai. The actualization of how many people were being killed in Vietnam hit America hard. The nation began taking a harder look at the United States involvement in Vietnam, and began numerous protests and rallies against the US government. (www.wooster.k12.oh.us/VietnamWar/Summary.html)
To many Americans,...
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