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North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
In response to this president, Jhonson ordered the military to bomb North Vietnam. As the bombings continued many Americans questioned the United States' claim that the troops were there "fighting a democratic war to liberate the South Vietnamese people from Communist aggression." -
The U.S. began to show their lack of support for the war
Protests began to break out in opposition of the Vietnam War -
Crystalline LSD synthesized
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the criminalization of burning draft cards
Lyndon Jhonson, the president of the US at the time, passed a law stating that burning a draft card is punishable by a $1000 fine or up to five months in jail (image source)https://www.google.com/search?q=burning+draft+cards&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS865US865&sxsrf=ALeKk00D8RVLLC8HDWKnU_3BTCtHp_5x5Q:1603078380708&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizi7er3L_sAhVPhOAKHedQDIQQ_AUoAXoECB0QAw&biw=1440&bih=764&dpr=2#imgrc=AJxYINsGCW-L1M -
The sunset strip curfew riots
The Sunset Strip Curfew Riots refers to a series of incidents that took place on the sunset strip between "hippies" and cops////
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43 die in Detroit riots
The 1967 Detroit riots begun after a bar was raided and arrested 82 African Americans. Locals who witnessed the raid were outraged thus beginning five consecutive days of riots that left 43 people dead and thousands injured.
VIDEO- News coverage from the riot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-x7uGSDZM -
Youth international (yippies) party was founded
The Yippie party was a countercultural radical party whose followers promoted free speech and anti-war (image source)https://www.google.com/search?q=yippies+party&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS865US865&sxsrf=ALeKk01Z7FANH1_jpJTMphHcdp7vgLjuRA:1603078451643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirtaDN3L_sAhXxUt8KHVYqDIQQ_AUoAXoECB0QAw&biw=1440&bih=764#imgrc=y6xLGyBxf03eiM -
MLK was shot
The hippie movement and the civil rights movement worked hand in hand to promote equality. In April of 1968 Martin Luther King, one of the most well-known faces of the movement was shot and killed in Memphis -
Sir George Williams Affair
200 students smashed computers with axes & set computer center on fire during a sit-in protesting racism at St. George Williams College in Canada -
500,000 individuals gathered in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock music festival
One of the most memorable festivals in history took place in New York in 1969. The festival was promoted as "3 days of peace and music". (Image link)https://www.theringer.com/2019/7/1/20651683/introducing-woodstock-99-podcast-trailer
