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- The Military Draft During the Vietnam War · Exhibit · Resistance and . . .
In July 1965, at the beginning of this steady escalation, President Johnson attempted to explain the need for increased military intervention in Vietnam in a press conference announcing that draft inductions would increase from 17,000 to 35,000 per month
- Vietnam War draft - Wikipedia
US involvement in Vietnam began in 1946 with support for France during the French Indo-China war The Geneva Accords of July 1954 brought an end to the conflict, with a new border drawn along the 17th parallel separating the Communist North and the French-controlled South
- Vietnam War Draft Calculator: Would You Have Been Drafted? | Vietnam . . .
On December 1, 1969, after years of conflict in Vietnam, the United States issued its first draft lottery since World War 2 Every male citizen between the ages of 18 and 26 was entered into a lottery
- 1968 - Impasse · The Draft in the Vietnam War, 1964-1973 - Omeka
On January 30, 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a coordinated offensive across South Vietnam, attacking cities and military bases to try and ferment an uprising against the U S -backed government
- Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era - Antiwar and Radical History Project
Beginning in 1964, students began burning their draft cards as acts of defiance [1] By 1969, student body presidents of 253 universities wrote to the White House to say that they personally planned to refuse induction, joining the half million others who would do so during the course of the war [2]
- The Military Draft During the Vietnam War - CherriesWriter
During the Vietnam War era, between 1964 and 1973, the U S military drafted 2 2 million American men out of an eligible pool of 27 million Although only 25 percent of the military force in the combat zones were draftees, the system of conscription caused…
- The Draft - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Thousands of draft-age men refused military service in Vietnam Burning draft cards, at first a symbolic protest, took on added significance in 1965 when President Johnson signed a law criminalizing the act
- The Draft and the Vietnam War - Students of History
With the Paris Peace Accords signed in January 1973, active American involvement in Vietnam came to an end and the draft saw the the last men conscripted on December 7, 1972 According to the National Archives, there were about 27 million American men eligible for military service between 1964 and 1973
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