Vietnam War ProtestsĮven before Nixon’s formal announcement of the invasion, rumors of the U.S. However, it was public reaction to the decision that ultimately led to the events at Kent State University, a public university in northeast Ohio. involvement in the war by not receiving their consent through a vote. Members of Congress accused the president of illegally widening the scope of U.S. They, along with the rest of the American public, found out about the invasion when President Nixon addressed the nation on television two days later. North Vietnamese troops were using safe havens in Cambodia to launch attacks on the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese, and parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail-a supply route used by the North Vietnamese-passed through Cambodia.Ĭontroversially, the president made his decision without notifying his Secretary of State William Rogers or Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. troops to invade Cambodia, a neutral nation located west of Vietnam.
However, on April 30, 1970, President Nixon authorized U.S. And, until April 1970, it appeared he was on the way to fulfilling that campaign promise, as military operations were seemingly winding down. Nixon had been elected in 1968 due in large part to his promise to end the Vietnam War. military activities in Southeast Asia, as well as the military draft. Protests across the country in the latter half of the 1960s were part of organized opposition against U.S. American involvement in the civil war in Vietnam-which pitted the communists of the northern part of the country against the more democratic south-had been controversial from its beginnings, and a significant segment of the general public in the United States was against the presence of U.S.
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