VIETNAM DRAFT & WAR PTOTEST

• Emily Spangler
• Marisa Williford
• Shyanne Johnson

Draft Card

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DRAFT

• Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
• 1948-1973 Peace time & period of conflict
• December 1,1969 - lottery drawing
• 1973- The draft ended &U.S. Converted to a volunteer military
• 1980- President Carter resumed registration of young men

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DRAFT PROCESS

• 18 years old must register for Selective Service
• Service Board calls men 18-26 into service if needed
• Vietnam War did the lottery drawing.

Protest

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PROTEST

• 1960's collage campus' started protest marches
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Free Speech Movement(FMS)
• Both protested what they thought was increasing power of the gov't

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PROTEST CONT.

• April 1965 20,000SDS marched in Washinton
• November 1965 there were 30,000 protesters
• 200,000 Men were drafted for the war

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Protesters

PROTESTERS

• Jane Fonda famous a tree that opposed the war
• David J. Miller set his draft card on fire and sent to prison for 2 years
• Robert La Porte set himself on fire in front of the UN in NYC
• Alice Herz first activist in the U.S. to protest the war
• Norman Morrison set himself on fire infront of the Pentagon

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PROTEST

• In the beginning people didn't protest the war.
• Soldiers were treated badly when they came home
• Soldiers were shunned and spit on.

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