THE VIETNAM WAR THE FIRST “LIVING-ROOM WAR”By: Aya Zakaria and Maha Al Kaabi and Mariam Al Kethairi 9A

IN WHAT WAY DID DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WAR AFFECT THE U.S?

By 1965, most troops sent were draftees. (Young men drafted, or forced, into military service)The Vietnam War was the first television war.

Watching the brutality of the war made the American society a lot more emotional than it ever was. Most citizens thought drafting was completely unfair.

Troops forced to fight + no support from home = low troop morale

“It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and die in extraordinary high proportions relative to the relative to the rest of the population.”- Martin Luther King Jr.

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WHY DID OPPOSITION TO THE WAR INTENSIFY?

Both the nation and troops thought the war was being fought for nothing, it did little to America’s interests. The society was sick and tired of what the government was telling them, that they are making progress. What they saw on television and read from journalists didn’t seem like progress. Credibility gap soon emerged. It is the difference between what Johnson said and the truth.

College students began protesting and criticizing the war. Especially those in The University of Michigan and UCLA.

They started The Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS.

SDS: originally formed to end racism and poverty, it soon became a campaign to end the war in Vietnam.

The National Guard shot four students in Kent State after thinking he heard “sniper shots” during the protest. This led to a an epidemic of college protests throughout the country.

KENT STATE MASSACRE