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Doves opposed some aspect of the war such as fighting in Vietnam or the way the government was handling the war
The draft was greatly opposed because people felt it was discriminating against poor and working-class families. This was because full time students, who were mostly middle class, received deferments and therefore were excused from the draft.
Eventually, Nixon changed the draft into a lottery system so that it was based off of age.
Many students held protests aginst American involvement in the war. An example of this is when students at Kent State burned down a military building. Later, when The National Guard had been sent to Kent State, students thre rocks at them yelling "we dont want your war." These uprisings caused the National Guard to open fire causing four student deaths and nine injured.
Many peace movement leaders claimed the war was morally wrong for the Americans to be involved in. They argued that innocent Vietnamese civillians were being harmed, enviromental harm was being done from American planes, and young American soldiers were needlessly suffering. Innocent Vietnamese were being killed as American soldiers had been known to harm villages bruning supplies and killing civillians.
Hawks were people who supported American involvement in the war if for honoring of America or for helping Vietnam.
A big reason many Americans wanted to win in Vietnam was to stop Communism growing elsewhere. They felt if other countries saw America let Communism grow in Vietnam then those countries too would bring back communism which America was strongly against. Americans felt winning the war could succesfully scare other countires into keeping communism away.
Another reason Americans wanted to stay in the war was because they believed America should show Americas support to its allies in the Third World. People believed if America showed that they would defend its allies it would prevent future wars with other Third World countries.
A lot of Americans were not completely supporting the war but also didn't want Americas withdrawal from the war to be deen as defeat. President Nixon supported "Peace with Honor" and tried to help South Vietnam be able to fight against the North with out American troops. Nixon did this by training the Souths soldiers and gradually withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Nixon also tried having peace talks with the North to end the war.