Protests against the Vietnam War, 1971.

1971
IREX has exchange agreements with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and Yugoslavia, and administers ad-hoc grants to assist American scholars with travel in the exchange countries. The number of scholars participating in the exchange programs rises dramatically.

Increasing public concern over the use and purpose of international aid and growing opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War leads the US Senate to reject the foreign aid bill authorizing funds for the 1972 and 1973 fiscal years.