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peace movement
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peace movement

Collective opposition to war. The Western peace movements of the late 20th century can trace their origins to the pacifists of the 19th century and conscientious objectors during World War I. The campaigns after World War II have tended to concentrate on nuclear weapons, but there are numerous organizations devoted to peace, some wholly pacifist, some merely opposed to escalation.

Other organizations are concerned with the future of life on planet Earth and the environment. In the USA, opposition to the Vietnam War, which grew from the late 1960s, was the primary post-World War II peace movement. It greatly influenced US politics and society, although Ban the Bomb opposition was older, a post-World War II posture against nuclear weapons.
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As more young men were drafted to fight in a war they didn't support or understand, an antiwar movement of a sort the country had never seen began to take shape.
Vietnam the war that's still with us: more than three decades after ... by Edidin, Peter / New York Times Upfront
The major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been much more difficult than anticipated, producing a politically toxic antiwar movement in the United States and a breakdown of the bipartisan consensus that emerged after September 11.
Ensuring a legacy: solidifying the Bush Doctrine by Holmes, Kim R. / The National Interest
In spite of furious disagreements about the war in Iraq, the tepid antiwar movement of today doesn't march under the insurgents' banner, the way that the protesters described by Bass and Rae carried the flag of the Viet Cong.
When Bobby Met Eli; Radical Chic on the streets of New Haven by Adesnik, David / The Weekly Standard
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