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Vietnam Divides the Nation: As causalties mounted in Vietnam, many americans began to protest against the war. Discouraged by domestic conflict over the war, rising violence, and the apparent lack of progress in Vietnam, President Johnson announced he would not seek another term as president. The Vietnam war produced sharp divisions between Americans who supported the war and those who did not, and the resulting political turmoil led President Johnson to decide not to run again. In March 1965 a group of faculty members and students at the University of Michigan abonded their classes and joined together in a teach-in. They discussed the issues surrounding the war and reaffirmed their reasons of opposing it. The gathering inspired teach ins at many campuses. In May 1965, 122 colleges held a National Teach In by the radio for more than 100,000 antiwar demonstraters. People who opposed the war did so for different reasons. Some saw the conflict as a civil war in which the U.S.had no business interferring. Others viewed S. Vietnam as a corrupt dictatorship and believed that defending it was immoral and unjst