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Article: Antiwar Movements
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- Dictionary of American History
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ANTIWAR MOVEMENTS
ANTIWAR MOVEMENTS.
Peace and antiwar movements provide a means to focus pacifist sentiment into organized, domestic expressions of dissent toward American foreign policy. Antiwar sentiment has usually been the attitude of the minority, and antiwar movements have traditionally struggled to be seen as representing a thoughtful and respectable critique of U.S. foreign policy rather than the radical fringe. Although peace movements have often existed in times of peace, it has been in times of military conflict or the increased risk of such conflict that the movements have thrived.
Antiwar sentiment dates back to the colonial period. Pacifism was one of the central tenets ...