Vietnam War Protests

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  1. 2. Antiwar demonstrations in which millions of people across the US skipped school and stayed home from their jobs
  2. 7. Despite their small numbers, these objectors played a significant role in opposing the military draft
  3. 8. 1974 documentary that portrayed the devastation the war was causing to the South Vietnamese people and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary amid considerable controversy
  4. 9. Members of the ______ Movement within the United States at first consisted of students, mothers, and anti-establishment youth. Opposition grew with the participation of activists of the civil rights, feminist, and Chicano movements, as well as sectors of organized labor.
  5. 10. The media established a sphere of public discourse around the _______ versus Doves debate. The Doves were people who had liberal views and were critics of the war, whereas the ______ represented people who argued that the war was legitimate and winnable.
  6. 12. Hundreds of Vietnam veterans dressed in combat fatigues and well-worn uniforms hurled these onto the steps of the U.S. Capitol on April 23, 1971, in what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement."
  7. 14. Anti-war demonstrations consisted mostly of peaceful, _________ protests
Down
  1. 1. The idea that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
  2. 3. System of conscription that mainly drew from minorities and lower and middle-class whites
  3. 4. University where four student protesters were killed by the Ohio National Guard in 1970
  4. 5. On December 26, 1971, 15 anti-war veterans began to occupy this statue, flying a US flag upside down from her crown. They left on December 28, following issuance of a Federal Court order.
  5. 6. Recorded the song Machine Gun in protest of the violence in Vietnam
  6. 11. Nonviolent method of protest that aroused sympathy for the demonstrators
  7. 13. Senator who, in April and May of 1971, chaired a series 22 hearings on proposals relating to ending the war
  8. 15. Highly toxic, flammable gelling agent used as a weapon in the war and produced by the Dow Chemical Company. Women protested its use by boycotting Saran Wrap, also made by Dow.