Antiwar Movement

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This paper discusses the antiwar actions of the Vietnam era in the 1960s, with a focus on draft resistance. The paper notes how the counterculture involved a number of different issues and concerns, though the groups that formed tended to coalesce around the ongoing war in Vietnam and to agitate for a withdrawal from that war, with resistance to the draft reaching a high in American history.

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"The 1960s counterculture altered American society significantly by giving it a new way of thinking about itself and its relationship to its government, its business community, and itself. It was then no longer proper merely to accept what society sets down as restrictions on personal conduct. The legacy of the 1960s has been a greater questioning of government, a legacy bolstered by Watergate and other elements of the 1970s. The counterculture involved a number of different issues and concerns, though the groups that formed tended to coalesce around the ongoing war in Vietnam and to agitate for a withdrawal from that war."

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