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1968The Year That Rocked The World

Mark Kurlansky

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Brief Overview • Black Power • Vietnam • U.S. Election• Czechoslovakia/Soviets• Biafran War• Summer Olympics• France• Yippie/Student Groups

and Protests

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Black Power/Equalitiy

• King and Carmichael • SNCC (Student

Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee)

• Sit-ins • Smith and Carlos

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Vietnam

• Worst year of war

• Draft = protests

• Walter Cronkite

• Abbie Hoffman

• Political Issue in election

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Election Year

Sen. Robert Kennedy Eugene McCarthy

V.S

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Biafran War

• Nigerians cut rebel Biafrans off from outside world

• People Starving• No way of sending

supplies to starving people

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Summer Olympics/Mexico

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Czechoslovakia/Soviets

• Alexander Dubcek• Closely tied with Soviet

Union • Dubcek started to hint

at multi-party government – closer to democracy

• Soviets Invaded

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France

• Students in universities were EXTREMELY limited

• Cohn-Bendit • “Paris was wonderful

then, everyone was talking”

• Enrages

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Yippies/Student Protests

• Youth International Party

• Word of protests spread to Europe

• Columbia University• Chicago Festival of Life