The Yippies were one of the anti-war protest groups.
The Youth International Party, whose supporters were known as "yippies", was an anti-authoritarian, pro-expression and antimilitarist political party established in the United States of America in 1967. Faced with the passive attitude and self-exclusion adopted by the "hippies", retiring to rural areas to adopt their communal model of life, the "yippies" were eminently urban. The Youth International Party, as a youth party, was aware that young people were the first major US electoral majority, and that there existed a great opportunity for social change for the ultraconservative American society of that time.
President Theodore Roosevelt sent troops to support Panamanian rebels in the fight against Colombia so that the Colombians would grant the United States the rights to build a canal, which was in the best interest of the US.
