Warm Up (on handout)
Analyze the Anti–Vietnam War movement
timeline. Then form your initial hypothesis
in your graphic organizer on the back to
the question:
Why did many Americans oppose the
Vietnam War?
The AntiVietnam War
Movement
FLT: I will be able to
evaluate the major
events in the Vietnam
War and the
Anti-Vietnam War
movement in the U.S.
Tet Offensive
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An overwhelming month-long
attack by the Vietcong on
over 100 towns and cities in
South Vietnam, as well as 12
U.S. air bases
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5 Americans killed in an
attack at the U.S. embassy in
Saigon (capital of the South)
• 
Vietcong lost 29,000 more
soldiers, but the Tet
offensive changed American
public opinion about the war.
“Peace with Honor”
• 
“Peace with Honor”
campaign helped Richard
Nixon get elected in 1969
• 
Gradual withdrawal of U.S.
troops out of Vietnam –
Vietnamization
• 
Later bombed parts of Laos
and Cambodia to take out
Vietcong supply routes and
bases – angered Americans
My Lai Massacre
• 
Mar. 1968, innocent civilians
massacred in small village of
My Lai, South Vietnam
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Lt. William Calley, “Kill
anything that breathes” –
later convicted, imprisoned
• 
More than 200 innocent
Vietnamese killed – mostly
women, children, and elderly
men
Violence on Campus
(1970)
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Massive student protests at
Kent State University, Ohio
• 
National Guards wounded
nine people and killed four
• 
Similar violence in all-black
college of Jackson State,
Mississippi
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12 students wounded, 2
killed – both innocent
bystanders
Anti-War movement grows
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Tet Offensive – lots of
bloodshed on both sides
• 
“Peace With Honor” –
government lies
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My Lai Massacre –
innocent Vietnamese killed
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Violence on campus –
student protestors killed
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Nl58QbpVLHw
Why did many Americans
oppose the Vietnam War?
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Read and annotate the primary documents by Martin
Luther King Jr. and John Kerry.
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Complete the graphic organizer and answer the above
essential question.
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Receive a stamp when finished
Paragraph Response #4
•  Describe the growth of the Anti–Vietnam
War movement. Why did so many
Americans oppose the war?