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1、The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos(老挝), and Cambodia(柬埔寨) from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon(西贡) on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of Sou
2、th Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies,Vietnam War Protest in Washington, D.C. by Frank Wolfe, October 21, 1967. A protest
3、sign reads GET THE HELLicopters OUT OF VIETNAM.,Anti-War Protests,Protests erupted on college campuses and in major cities at first, but by 1968 every corner of the country seemed to have felt the wars impact.,Anti-War Sentiments,As the deaths mounted and Americans continued to leave for Southeast A
4、sia, the Johnson administration was met with the full weight of American anti-war sentiments.,Campus Protests & Shootings,The intense bombing campaigns and intervention in Cambodia in late April 1970 sparked intense campus protests all across America.,Vietnam War protesters. Wichita, Kansas, 1967,Pr
5、otests against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. on April 24, 1971,Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam War rally at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul on April 27, 1967,Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred kerstrm, Gsta Cervin in a protest march against the Vietnam War in Stockholm, 1965,In
6、the course of the war,there developed in the United States the greatest antiwar movement te nation had ever experienced,a movement that played a critical role in bringing the war to an end. -Howard Zinn,What do you think of the women in the anti-war movement?,substantially oppress majestic degrading
7、 chastity homicide perpetuate self-affirmation self-abnegation,实质上压迫宏伟的丢脸的贞洁 杀人 保持 自我肯定 自我克制,The job arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to have a people whohave been told over many hundred years know that th
8、ey were not inferior and of no importance.Psychological freedom,a firm sense of self-esteem,is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.Understanding the situation of being anslaved will be the first step towards liberation.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negros themselves.,