Vietnam War

When it comes to the connection between students at unrest and the United States government; due to the Draft that had been formed which during the mid to late 1960s every American male had register their name for the Selective Service Draft at the age of 18. With this they would become suitable to be drafted for a period of two years in the Army or any of the other branches. This only pertained to those who were not currently students. Many college students received what was called a deferment while attending college, but it was once they had finished their college hours their names went from being at the bottom of the list to the top of men to be drafted. The anti-war movement was college students protesting for the war to be over before they were to be drafted.

The Vietnam War has been recorded as one of the longest wars in United States history. The war spanning over fifteen years from 1960 to 1975, it unfortunately started before then during President Truman and President Eisenhower time in office. President Truman set forth a modest attempt to aid the French in the 1950s in trying to retain the control of a colony that contain Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It was in 1954 that the French fell suit to the Communist led Vietminh army and with that was compelled to accede. However, the United States was refusing to the arrangements that were made by the North Vietnam Communists. Now, under President Eisenhower saw the advantage of taking over control from the French and trying to fabricate a government for South Vietnam. With this Eisenhower started to dispatch military advisors to South Vietnam to start training the Vietnamese army and along with that he unleashed the Central Intelligence Agency to North Vietnam to perform psychological warfare. Truman and Eisenhower's political antics towards Vietnam took place before the War itself actually started. Their plans were seen as stepping stones for those to come.

In 1961, a year after the War started, arose another turning point and this was the start of President Kennedy's term in office. Kennedy sent over 400 Green Beret soldiers to South Vietnam secretly to show and teach the South Vietnamese army how to fight against the Communist guerillas; this political act that Kennedy was trying to accomplish was the counterinsurgency where our troops would aide in teaching another how to fight. The year that Kennedy was assassinated we had over 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam alone. Then with Johnson being Kennedy's successor, he was committing to the United States fully towards the war. President Johnson was able to obtain from Congress a declaration of war granted that it was not an actual but it was functional. And with the possession of that he started bombing certain parts of North Vietnam by trying to deplete any and all resources. Johnson also saw an opportunity to deploy even more Armed Forces over to Vietnam and Cambodia to fight a battle that