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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In this episode, Sean and James discuss the complex and multifaceted anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States and around the world.
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| 0:37.3 | War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding |
| 0:41.6 | right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its |
| 0:47.2 | size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for |
| 0:52.8 | understanding American history. |
| 0:59.8 | Welcome to Key Battles of American History, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars. |
| 1:03.5 | Here is your host, James Early. |
| 1:20.4 | Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of the Vietnam War, a 10,000-foot survey of the war that defined a generation. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm your host James Early, as always. And as always, I am joined by my co-host, Sean McIra. Well, in our last episode, we discussed the horrific human cost of the Vietnam War. We discussed the nature and number of casualties |
| 1:35.6 | on each side, the specific number of people that each side had killed and wounded, and, or an |
| 1:41.0 | estimate thereof, and the experience of those who were captured and made prisoners |
| 1:45.4 | of war. In this episode, we turn to the topic of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United |
| 1:50.8 | States. And once again, I have to throw in a disclaimer. Of course, we did talk about the |
| 1:55.4 | anti-war movement in our regular episode, so there will be some repetition, but in this episode, we're going to dive |
| 2:02.7 | in quite a bit deeper. So kick us off, Sean. Well, in the 1960s, the 70s were a time |
| 2:10.0 | a great social and political turmoil in the United States. Many protests and reform movements were |
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