Anti-war movement
What Anti-war movement means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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The campaign against the war that the exposure of the massacre accelerated by shattering the moral justification for US involvement.
Opposition to the war in the USA, including student protests, which put pressure on the government.
Topics that use Anti-war movement
- International Relations: the changing international order 1918–1975 - Cold War confrontations and conflict 1954–1975 (OCR GCSE)
- Option 33: Key topic 4: Reactions to, and the end of, US involvement in Vietnam, 1964–75 - 1 Opposition to the war (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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