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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 1 Vietnam War Resistance Debriefing Sheet Directions: As you view the stations, answer the questions included on this debriefing sheet. People Across the U.S. Protest 1. Look at the three photographs of people protesting. What do the photos have in common? 2. Which of the three photographs stands out to you the most? Why? 3. Look at the two anti-war posters in the bottom left. Which poster do you think is the most effective? Why? Protests About War Strategies 1. What is napalm? Why do you think Americans protested the use of napalm in the Vietnam War? 2. Look at the photograph of the mother with her baby. Why do you think this photograph of an anti-war protest would have been effective? 3. Look at the two anti-war posters, and choose one to analyze. What was the message of this poster? People are protesting on the street to show how they are not satisfied with the situation now. Also, they are a lot of violence during the protest The third one, because people are protesting on the street with chaos and people doing what they want to do on the street. The second one, because it’s making the plane with money which mean the country fight the war by using people’s money and let people died. Napalm is a weaponized mixture of chemicals designed to create a highly flammable and gelatinous liquid. They use it because It felt like chemical warfare at its worst It let people think that some people is really poor and even mother with baby have no place to stay and even have to feed the baby on the street. The first one, the poster show a person that her face is completely destroyed. It means this chemical thing is really harmful. It also mean the severe situation during the war.

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 2 Media Coverage of the War 1. What appears to be happening on the TV screen in the photograph? 2. The Vietnam War is sometimes called “The Living Room War.” Why do you think the war received this nickname? 3. What were some of the effects of the Vietnam War being shown on TV? 4. Do you think the reaction to the Vietnam War might have been different if there was not on- site media coverage of the war? Why or why not? Cartoons About the Vietnam War 1. Look at the cartoon on the left (“Chopping Block”). Describe what you see in that cartoon. 2. The Vietnam War occurred during a period of intense social tension in the United States. What is the message of the cartoon on the left? People are watching the war live. And they see a lot of people been killed. The people who are watching feel sad and bad. The tv is showing the Vietnam war. Television reduced the space between the battlefield and the viewer. When the media showed the intensity and the chaos of the war with relatively little mediation, it helped turn people against the war Americans were able to connect and empathize with the soldiers more than ever before. This caused an outcry of public opinion against the war Yes, when the media spread the information of the war, more and more people are going to look forward to help. And the government who fight the war may have the pressure to stop the war since so many people are looking what they have done It indicate that the Vietnam war hurt America seriously. The war has a ff ected the united state very big. A knife is cutting the united state means it hurt it seriously. The war a ff ect united state a lot and hurt it seriously. The united state are related to the Vietnam war.

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 3 3. Look at the cartoon on the right (“I Don’t Know Who is Winning, But I Know Who is Losing”). Describe what you see in that cartoon. 4. What is the message of the cartoon on the right? Draft Resistance 1. What were some ways people avoided the draft during the War in Vietnam? 2. What is a conscientious objector? 3. Look at the photograph of young men burning their draft card. Do you think this is a powerful protest image? Why or why not? Muhammad Ali Speaks Out 1. What were the effects of Ali’s refusal to be drafted? 2. According to Ali, why should he not fight for the U.S. military in Vietnam? Plane are flying by and throw a lot of bombs, people’s house are destroyed and smoking in the picture. . It means that a lot of people are not able to return to their home after the war. Building are destroyed and a lot of people are hurt some fled to Canada; many feigned physical or mental illness, others used family connections to gain safe positions in the National Guard. A conscientious objector is one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles No, because that is only a card, why people burn it and think it will a ff ect to the war. So I don’t think it is going to be powerful he was sentenced to 5 years in prison Because he citing his religion forbade him from serving.

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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 4 3. What do you think Muhammad Ali meant when he said “I’ll go to jail. We’ve been in jail for 400 years”? 4. Do you think Muhammad Ali’s public resistance to the Vietnam War made him more or less popular? Why? Women Strike for Peace 1. What was the mission of Women Strike for Peace? 2. How did Women Strike for Peace advocate against the Vietnam War? (What were their tactics?) 3. Look at the images on this station. Which do you find most powerful? Why? African American Resistance to the Vietnam War 1. According to the Mississippi Freedom Party, why should Americans be against the Vietnam War? Make a list of their points: He means I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I'll go to jail. We've been in jail for 400 years More popular, Muhammad Ali received the Liberty Medal for his long-time role as an advocate for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom. protest U.S. and Soviet atmospheric nuclear tests. women marched in Washington, D.C., to make their appeal The first one, because they are protest in front of the White House, it show directly to the president and let him heard of their thoughts Americans opposed the war on moral grounds, appalled by the devastation and violence of the war. Others claimed the conflict was a war against Vietnamese independence, or an intervention in a foreign civil war; others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives and appeared to be unwinnable.

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 5 2. Why was Fannie Lou Hamer opposed to the war in Vietnam? Celebrities Speak Out: Eartha Kitt and Dr. Spock 1. According to Kitt, what were some of the root causes of “juvenile delinquency” in America? 2. What were the effects of Kitt speaking against the Vietnam War? Does this seem fair? Why or why not? 3. What were the effects of Dr. Spock urging young men to resist the draft? Does this seem fair? Why or why not? Anti-War Music 1. Why do you think anti-war music became so popular in the 1960s and 1970s? 2. Read Dylan’s lyrics from “Masters of War.” Who are the “masters of war”? What were they responsible for? He worried that the war would distract from domestic concerns, including the civil rights movement. economic problems in the family. Youth belonging from poor economic status easily get involved in criminal activities They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched o ff from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam. That is not fair because everyone have the right to go to school and learn children come into the world with distinct needs, interests and abilities, and that the core of good parenting is attending carefully to what each child requires at each stage of development. And it is fair because children deserve to have all of that The music helped to build the antiwar community the message he wanted to convey: that the people with power in the government are at fault for the atrocities of war and all the unnecessary spilling of blood

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 6 3. What is Dylan’s message in the last verse? (Verse begins with “Let me ask you one question…”) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1. Who was Sammy Younge, and what happened to him? 2. Summarize SNCC’s statement in bullet points below: 3. What is the message of the scene from Julian Bond’s comic book? Kent State Shooting 1. Why were students protesting at Kent State University on May 4, 1970? 2. How did National Guardsmen explain the decision to fire 67 shots into the crowd of students? there is nothing you can do, nothing will be changed killed at a gas station in Macon County, Alabama for using the “whites- only” bathroom. He was a 21-year-old African American Tuskegee Institute student and a voting rights activist. It was made up mostly of Black college students, who practiced peaceful, direct action protests. He want free election a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. They said because they feared for their lives,

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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 7 3. Look at the three photographs. What appears to be happening in the photographs? a. Image One: b. Image Two: c. Image Three: 4. Why do you think the Kent State shootings received so much national attention? Jackson State Shooting 1. Look at the photograph. Make a list of what you observe in the photograph: 2. According to Dr. Gene Young, why were students at Jackson State protesting in May 1970? 3. The Kent State shooting is very well-known. Why do you think the shooting at Jackson State is not as well-known? A group of soldiers shoot to a group of citizens Ambulance come and want to save life People died directly after the shooting Some political observers believe the events of that day in northeast Ohio tilted public opinion against the war and may have contributed to the downfall of President Richard Nixon The window seems like have been shoot a lot and the people inside are afraid of the next shooting. Also, people who are inside looks like African American which are not been treat nicely Because they are all student and government have no point to attack them so students protest and let people show what they have been done The country don’t want the information to spread so they restrict the TV station or news not to spread them

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: _____________ Pd: ______ 8 Reflection Questions 1. Reflect on what you learned from the stations. Which of the arguments against the Vietnam War did you find the most compelling? Why? (Identify the specific argument and explain why you found it convincing.) 2. People who protested against the war were often called anti-patriotic. Patriotism is sometimes defined as love or pride for one’s country. Do you think that the anti-Vietnam War protestors were patriotic or not? Defend your argument. 3. The Anti-Vietnam War movement and the Civil Rights Movement were deeply connected. Based on what you learned, why were the two movements often connected? (What types of arguments did people make in support of the Civil Rights Movement and against the War in Vietnam?) First station, because people protesting on the street show how they re not satisfied and make people see it and more join. It will let the country see it quicker Yes, they want to fight for the self means they want this country to be better, if they don’t love the country, they will not spend more time on it instead living the country The war helped to split the struggle for social justice at the very time that it was achieving its greatest successes. The factionalism over whether or not to support the war decimated the crusade for human equality. They both work together will make the people have a better life