Vietnam coverage inspired criticism of the warĪt the time of the assassination of President John F. strategy to prevent this included a chain of events that resulted in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that presidents used to justify U.S. These arrangements intensified the resolve of North Vietnamese leaders to pursue a strategy that would ultimately result in the unification of the two countries under Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam. Vietnam was partitioned into North and South Vietnam as a result of international agreements and the creation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, which established a military relationship between South Vietnam and the United States. fought over attempts to reunite North and South Vietnam leaders defined the national interest as working toward the containment of Communist expansion globally and the prevention of the development of perceived Soviet surrogate states anywhere in the world. The Vietnam War was the product of Cold War dynamics between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Photo from UW Digital Collections, licensed under CC BY 2.0) Here, student protesters marched down Langdon Street at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Vietnam War era, January 1965. Other challenges which made it to the Supreme Court concerned a law prohibiting the mutilation or burning of draft cards (upheld) and prior restraint on the press involving the publication of classified information (rejected, Pentagon Papers). The war in Vietnam became the focus of protests that resulted in government attempts to limit First Amendment protections mostly dealing with the right to assemble and what constituted appropriate free speech criticism of the war.
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