Anti-war movement to Vietnam

U.S Merchant Marine sailors condemn the U.S. government for the use of U.S. merchant ships to transport French troops whose express purpose is to "subjugate the native population" of Vietnam.

September 1945: Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh, declares the independence of the Vietnamese people, renaming the country the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).

The Students for a democratic society, later to become one of the most influential anti-vietnam organisations, is founded in early 1960 by Tom Hayden and Al Haber.

The assassination of JFK shocks the nation. Lyndon B Johnson is appointed as president and takes a military focus on Vietnam.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident officially involved the U.S in the Vietnam War. This event angered protesters who were adamant to see the troops come home.

The first teach-in, which was held overnight at the University of Michigan in March 1965, began with a discussion of the Vietnam War draft and ended in the early morning with a speech by philosopher Arnold Kaufman.

3,500 United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place.

Twenty thousand people, mostly students, gather at the Washington Monument for the SDS march down the Washington Mall. Communist Party members march under their official banner.

25,000 people march together in Washington against the U.S involvement in the Vietnam war.