student movement

• what was the student movement?

  -left wing crusade that wanted to transform American society
• when did student movement develop?

  -late 1960s and early 1970s
• why did the student movement oppose the Vietnam war?

  -media coverage turned people against war

  -civil rights movement highlighted racial inequality in US forces

  -average GI age killed was 23

  -2000000 men forced to fight in war because of draft
• how did the students and hippies protest against war ?

  -student protests became increasingly violent and had clashes with police

  -500000 people came together in Washington on the 15th Nov in anti war protest

  -Hippies rejected government and authority
• what was the significance of the student movement in war?

  -key factor in eventual withdrawal of US forces from vietnam