Make Love, Not War☮
Anti-War Movement✌
Facts about the Anti-War Movement
- Anti-war movements began on college campuses, students started composing "teach-ins" to express there opposition
- 40,000 young men were drafted into war each month, adding fuel to the fire
- In 1968, 10,000 anti-war protesters showed up outside the convention building where Vice President Hubert Humphrey was running for re-election
- At Kent State in May 1970, National Guard troops shot into a group of protesters demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, killing four students
- In mid-1917, the Pentagon papers revealed details about the war's conduct
Anti-War Protest Pictures
Anti-war protest on November 15th, 1969.
An anti-war poster that shows that war is good for the few wealthy and bad for the people who have to actually fight in the war.
At Kent State University in the spring of 1970, the National Guard shot into an unarmed crowd of student protesters killing four students.
Signs like this were used to show how bad the "doves" wanted our troops our of Vietnam.
An anti-war movement march in Washington D.C.
Anti-war protesters laced the National Guards guns with flowers.
A large gathering of protesters at the Washing monument.
Bob Seger made an anti-war song on this album called 2+2+?
I used the pictures above to try to show the captured moments of protesters, and their signs with anti-war slogans as well as an newspaper article that showed the Kent State incident, an album with an anti-war song, and my favorite, the one with an anti-war protester lacing flowers into National Guards gun barrels.