Student Unrest
The connection between student unrest and the Vietnam War was obviously an issue that effected students in the United States and throughout the nation. Students in the United States protested the war in several ways. Students who attended Kent State University protested Richard Nixon’s decision to continue the war in Cambodia by tearing pages out of history books and burning them. The students thought that this was their voice to the world that the president was destroying the Constitution (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005)
Students in China protested the war by gathering in the vineyards of Mao Zedong’s Red gaurds. The students felt like this may help reduce of the bourgeois cultural influences (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students in Italy protested the war by denouncing the official Marxism of the Soviet Union and of the Italian Communist party (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students of the French protested the war by standing against the University’s efforts to discipline political activists at the Sorbonne in Paris (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students of Czechoslovokia rebelled against the domination of the Soviet Union. This type of rebellious act came to be known as the Prague Springs. Soon the soviet’s sent in tanks that brought the student’s protesting to an end (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
The majority of the time when these students were protesting they were unarmed. Most of the killing and wounding came from law officials trying to end the riots and protestors. Throughout the nation the protesting students wanted the world to know that they did not support the American war in Vietnam (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005.)
University of Miami library (n.d.) stated that “as the Vietnam war dragged on into its second decade with no perceptibleend in sight, and American casualties mounted along with its atrocities, young men who had received deferments because of their student status found themselves increasingly in jeopardy as
Students in China protested the war by gathering in the vineyards of Mao Zedong’s Red gaurds. The students felt like this may help reduce of the bourgeois cultural influences (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students in Italy protested the war by denouncing the official Marxism of the Soviet Union and of the Italian Communist party (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students of the French protested the war by standing against the University’s efforts to discipline political activists at the Sorbonne in Paris (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
Students of Czechoslovokia rebelled against the domination of the Soviet Union. This type of rebellious act came to be known as the Prague Springs. Soon the soviet’s sent in tanks that brought the student’s protesting to an end (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005).
The majority of the time when these students were protesting they were unarmed. Most of the killing and wounding came from law officials trying to end the riots and protestors. Throughout the nation the protesting students wanted the world to know that they did not support the American war in Vietnam (The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2005.)
University of Miami library (n.d.) stated that “as the Vietnam war dragged on into its second decade with no perceptibleend in sight, and American casualties mounted along with its atrocities, young men who had received deferments because of their student status found themselves increasingly in jeopardy as
References: Global Security.org: Vietnam War.(2000-2009). Retrieved Janurary 10, 2010, from http://www.globalsecurity.org. The Sixties Home: Student Unrest. (n.d.) University of Miami Retrieved Janurary10, 2010, from http://www.scholar.library.miami.edu/sixties/studentUnrest.php The McGraw-Hill Companies The Vietnam Era (2005). Retrieved December 26, 2009, from http://www.myresource.phoenix.edu.