美国1960年青年反战运动。。。.ppt

The social movements in 1960s The civil rights movement The youth movement /anti-war movement The women’s liberation movements Why did the social movement begin? In 1960s, many American men worked hard to achieve their dream. They believed they were living the American Dream. However three groups---Afo-American,young people and women-were dissatisfied with their lives. They had a different idea of what the Americans Dream is. Backgrounds As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, womens rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialist interpretation of the American Dream. White, middle-class youth — who made up the bulk of the counterculture — had sufficient leisure time to turn their attention to social issues. These social issues included support for civil rights, womens rights, and gay rights movements, and a rejection of the Vietnam War. Hippies became the largest countercultural group in the United States. The counterculture also had access to a media eager to present their concerns to a wider public. Anti-war movement Anti-war movement The conflict in Vietnam resulted in over 55,000 American deaths and producd a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. As the movements ideals spread beyond college campuses, doubts about the war also began to appear within the administration itself. A mass movement began rising in opposition to the Vietnam War, ending in the massive Moratorium protests in 1969, as well as the movement of resistance to conscription (the Draft) for the war. Details The antiwar movement was initially based on the older 1950s Peace movement, heavily influenced by the American Communist Party. But by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement