Anti-war Movement during the Vietnam War

Paul Potter, president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), held his first anti-war rally that attracted 25,000 people. The movement occurred between 1960 and 1970. Paul Potter’s speech, “The Incredible War”, was established in hopes of ending the war by creating a social movement. The only way for people to end the war is by challenging the system, creating posters, and not by having a couple marches because that wasn’t going to benefit them. “This war was mainly fought mainly by Vietnamese Communists, who were strong in the north of Vietnam.” (Britannica) The goal of the movement was to end the Vietnam War because it was taking away the American’s freedom and destroying their peace in the world. The Americans and South Vietnam were mostly involved in the movement. The movement started because Vietnam wanted to become a communist government and until then, corruption occurred.

The anti-war movement regarded the Vietnam War which began in 1946 when Vietnam wanted to gain its’ independence from French rule. Eventually the U.S involved themselves and went to war against the communists. “The United States entered the war against the communist, but even American military might could not save the South Vietnam government.” (Britannica). United States had given South Vietnam military and food for such a decent amount of time and still had not made any progress throughout the war. The war took place for nearly thirty years with little success.

Paul Potter’s speech took place on April 17, 1965 although 20 years after the war began in 1945, it was time to take a challenge and overcome the system. It had involved the Americans, the hippies, South Vietnam, and the American troops fighting in the Vietnam War. The biggest movement in...

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...lesson behind it, and that was that United States would no longer involve themselves in situations where they were not needed and especially if it had to do with foreign countries. United States now, do not contribute involvement in any type of war in the twentieth century.

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