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| How did the draft function? | Selective Service System, all males had to register at 18 years old, men between 18-26 could be called |
| How was the draft unfair? | it was easy to cheat the system, medical reasons or college deferment, lower class whites and minorities made up the majority of draftees |
| Describe black deaths in Vietnam during the first years of the war and how did the Defense Department try to correct this imbalance in 1969? | They instituted the draft lottery system in 1969. |
| What issues did Vietnam raise for African Americans? | raised questions of why blacks should die for a country that considered them second class citizens |
| How were women involved in the war? | military nurses, Red Cross, not allowed to serve in combat |
| Define "New Left" | the growing youth movement in the 1960s ; didn't preach socialism but demanded changes |
| What did the SDS feel happened to America? | Students for a Democratic Society believed corporations and large governments institutions took over America |
| What was the message of the free speech movement? | speaking out agains the nation's faceless to the powerful businesses and government |
| what were some of the issues that college students were concerned with at the time | dress codes, curfews, dorm regulations, mandatory ROTC |
| what issue fueled campus protests | only college students with good grades were exempt from the draft |
| for what reasons did the protestors oppose the Vietnam war | the believed it was a civil war and not meant for the US; S. Vietnamese weren't any better than the communists; morally unjust |
| who else lent their voices to the antiwar movement? | returning vets, folk singers |
| Give three examples of how the draft divided the nation and how the government dealt with the protest. | burnt draft cards- held protests; refused to serve in war= jailed; stormed the Pentagon w/30,000 protestors= tear gas, clubs, arrested |
| Define "dove" | opposed the war, wanted to withdraw |
| Define "hawk" | believed we should release greater miliatry force to win the war |
| What was the American public opinion on the war by 1967? | 70% believed protests were acts of disloyalty |
| What was Johnson's reaction to the turmoil and division that agitated the country at this time? | he ignored the doves and hawks and just continued his policy of slow escalation |
| What did some members of his administration start to feel about the war? | They began to have doubts; Robert McNamara resigned in Nov 1967 |
