Fighting to lose was many people’s aspects of this war but Uncle Sam still sends young men to fight and lose there lives.  Hippies were the free will in the war they wanted to stop it and would do everything in there power to do so.

1. Racism: 

• Relationship’s
• Blacks and Whites did not get along well.
• Black and White people were very segregated form each other.
• In the war the soldiers would treat Vietnamese with disrespect, throw things at them and sometimes even kill them.

2. Social Changes:

• American People Changes

·         The civil rights movement of the early 1960s influenced the peace movement in the United States heavily.

·         Drug laws were set and in forced more after Vietnam and Woodstock.

·         People used a variation of drugs and many different sex partners without sexual precautions.

3. Political Policy:

·         Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) became one of the largest organizations associated with the peace movement during the late 1960s.

·         The prominence of SDS dramatically increased because they organized teach-ins, at which people would learn about Vietnam and U.S. policy.

·         American blacks protested U.S. involvement in Vietnam as well. Since the combat soldiers that were sent to Vietnam were disproportionately black and since many blacks were upset at the federal government for not protecting their rights while using rhetoric that the U.S. was defending the rights of Vietnamese, many blacks were strongly involved in the anti-war movement.

·         The United States extended to all of Vietnam and Cambodia the wartime embargo against North Vietnam.  Saying that Hanoi had massively violated the “Paris agreements and the U.S. also said as a result of this, they had no obligation to furnish the reconstruction aid.

4. Memorials:

·         The Wall" was built in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C., through private donations from the public, and dedicated in 1982.  This Gallery also contains images and text about the Vietnam Women's Memorial that stands near "The Wall" and honors the military and civilian women who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War. Some of their names are with their brothers' on "The Wall." Diane Evans, is the founder of this Memorial project.  The Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated over Veterans Day weekend of November 10-12, 1993.

·         Memorial Plaque Project Honoring veterans whose post-Vietnam Sacrifices are not known by names on The Wall.