... The lines "There's a battle outside/and it's ragin'/it'll soon shake your windows/rattle your walls" are a reference to the Vietnam War. Dylan also sings the lines, "Come mothers and fathers/throughout the land/and don't criticize/what you can't understand/your sons and daughters are ... people were. This song can be interpreted many different ways but it is known to be an anthem for protests,especially protests that involved the Vietnam War (Chuvalas). Songs such as this one were sang and performed during protests all over. There was a group that called themselves the counterculture. ....

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Showing the Vietnam War television made many Americans far more anti-war than anything else. The full brutality of the war was seen in their living rooms. Sources D to J give different reasons as to why America pulled out of the war. Some of them support that the reason was television however some sources say otherwise. Source E is the only source that would have been directly shown ... , "one does not" three times. He has a very blunt and harsh manner. He would have been embedded with the troops in Vietnam and chose the words he was going to send back to America, which reflects his view of th...

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... people think today collage and student antiwar movements were not the only participants, in fact many and most of the middle-class, well educated people were opposed to war and wanted to see troops withdrawn from Vietnam as the antiwar impulse largely reflected moral repulsion against bombing and killing thousands of innocent lives. Although the large majority of people were opposed to ... - hippies with long hair, no job and tripping on drugs who believed in making love not war and it was this small minority that the media and politicians picked up on and degraded on many occasions. Nix...

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... documentary nevertheless remains inquiring and responsive to the views of others. On May 2, 1970, National Guard troops were called to Kent, Ohio, to suppress students rioting in protest of the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The next day, scattered protests were dispersed by tear gas and on May 4, classes resumed at Kent State University. By noon on that day, despite ... of wealth and future job skills. The amount of people concerned with international political and moral matters, or at least the level of their concern, has greatly diminished since the Vietnam era. Klein...

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... upset many Americans because Nixon was brought into office due to his promise to end the war. In his first year of presidency it looked like the end of the war was near, but with this announcement the end of the war was not evident. This pro-war decision by Nixon upset many people and led to riots all over the country. How could ... were revolts at many universities, such as Kent State. Young students were upset because they were the ones being drafted and the sooner the war ended the less chance they had of seeing war. On Friday, May 1,1970 anti-war rallies began to take place at Kent ...

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