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Expert: Trey Childs
Date: 10/14/2007
Subject: Vietnam war protests
Question
Could you tell me anything about protests against the Vietnam War in Europe and Australia? I can only find stuff about the US protests. Even if you could just give me some websites, I'd be grateful. Cheers!
Answer
The Vietnam war, as we all know, was protested around the world. While the bulk of information on anti-war protests does come from the USA there are a number of sources citing protests against American involvement in Vietnam that come from abroad.
More specifically, in Australia there are a number of sources that give information about Anti-war protests in the country. This is because unlike many countries, Australia sent troops to fight on the ground alongside US forces as part of the ANZUS military agreement. To make a real comparison, the war was protested in much the same way as it was in the USA, simply on a smaller scale. For more information, here are a few articles from Trinity College's database on the anti-Vietnam War movement in Australia: http://www.takver.com/history/matteson.htm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/1997/272/17097
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/viet_app.htm
http://www.aldridgeshs.eq.edu.au/sose/modrespg/vietnam/gould.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0429-08.htm
As one can see protest against the war from Australia came mainly from left-wingers, and was not nearly as widespread as it was in the United States, however it must be considered that Australia had not committed nearly as many troops as the US had.
Analysis of protest in Europe becomes far more difficult as Europe at that time was vastly divided. Many of the French for example would have been in full support of the was, as up until 1949 the French were in control of "Indochina" which included Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Therefore they did not believe in Vietnamese independence at all and would likely have supported American involvement. Germany would likely have been largely neutral on the matter, being split between East and West. Communist countries, or countries with Communist influence such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and others would not have been likely to protest for fear of repercussions from oppressive communist regimes. However, there would likely have been protest found in the UK at around the same level as was in Australia. This being noticeable, but not comparable to that of the US, and stemming mainly from the left-wing.
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