Vietnam War Dbq

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The Vietnam war produced varying public opinion, pro-Vietnam war advocates believed the war to be a necessary action to prevent the spread of communist ideology to the west, on the other hand, anti-war advocates began demonstrating against a violent war that had no clear objectives or reasoning for an intervention, also considering previous western control of Vietnam and determining that Vietnam should have authority over its own affairs. Initially, the anti-Vietnam war movement began on college campuses amongst intellectual groups who would meet to discuss the atrocities that were being committed in South-East Asia. It wasn’t until 1964 that the magnitude of activists and succession of demonstrations protesting the war began to increase, the