A Nation Divided

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A Nation Divided

• Chapter 22.3

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The Working Class Goes to War

• Males (18) registered for draft
• Men could find ways around draft
• Medical exemptions
• Lenient Draft Boards
• College Deferments
• Led to the working class war

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The Working Class Goes to War

• African Americans in Vietnam
• 20 of combat death were AfAm
• Defense Dept had to correct imbalance
• Women in Vietnam
• 10,000 women serve non combat
• 6 women were killed (On the Wall)
• USO United Service Org provided entertainment
• Bob Hope

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Roots of Opposition

• SDS
• Students for a Dem Society
• Large corps had taken over Am
• Goal restore participatory democracy
• FSM
• Free Speech Movement
• Berkeley, CA
• Clashes b/t administration and students

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Protest Movement Emerges

• Protests on DC led by SDS
• Deferment standards had to have good academic
  standing to get draft deferment
• Civil Disobedience SDS counseled people on how
  to avoid draft

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Protest Movement Emerges

• Protesting Because
• 1. US had no business being in another countrys
  civil war
• 2. SV was just as oppressive as NV
• 3. US could not police the globe
• 4. US losing world support
• 5. morally unjust

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Protest Movement Emerges

• Resistance
• Hell no we wont go!
• Burned draft cards
• War Divides the Nation
• Doves strongly opposed the war
• Hawks Strongly supported heavy military force
• Most Am supported the war but were weary

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