Editing 1960s (section)

===Anti-war movement===
{{main|Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War}}
[[File:Vietnamdem.jpg|thumb|left|A demonstrator offers a flower to military police guarding [[the Pentagon]] during the [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]]'s 21 October 1967 [[March on the Pentagon]]]]
The war in Vietnam would eventually lead to a commitment of over half a million American troops, resulting in over 58,500 American deaths and producing a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. As late as the end of 1965, few Americans protested the American involvement in Vietnam, but as the war dragged on and the body count continued to climb, civil unrest escalated. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. As the movement's ideals spread beyond college campuses, doubts about the war also began to appear within the administration itself. A mass movement began rising in opposition to the [[Vietnam War]], including the [[National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam]]'s 1967 march to the United Nations  and its [[March on the Pentagon]], the [[1968 Democratic National Convention protests]] at which the slogan "[[The whole world is watching]]" became famous, and continuing in the massive [[Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam|Moratorium]] protests in 1969 as well as the movement of resistance to [[Conscription in the United States|conscription]] ("the Draft") for the war.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}}

The [[antiwar movement]] was initially based on the older 1950s [[Peace movement]], heavily influenced by the [[Communist Party USA|American Communist Party]], but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered in universities and churches: one kind of protest was called a "[[sit-in]]". Other terms heard in the United States included "[[the Draft]]", "[[draft dodger]]", "[[conscientious objector]]", and "[[Vietnam veteran|Vietnam vet]]". Voter age-limits were challenged by the phrase: "If you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to vote."