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Towared a New Left
The Port Huron Statement was stated, demanding a new left and created the Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) -
Protests and Resistance
Mario Savio forunded the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, where student groups protested the right to political activity on campus, also organized the sit-in at Sproul Hall. They also protested to reform the school system including necessary ROTC programs, dress codes, and the grading system. -
Six Day War
Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel of its rights to exist, Palestinians turned to the Palestinian Liberation Organization and demanded Israel's destruction -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, in response to MKL's death black ghettos turned to violence, the exact opposite of Martin Luther King Jr's ideals -
Gay Liberation
Revealed a new sense of identity and self acceptance of the gay culture, groups fought for equal rights, the inclusion of lesbians in the Women's Rights Movement, and the removal of the immorality usually placed to the gay community -
Woodstock festival
over 400,000 hippies indulged in rock music, drugs such as Marijuana and LSD, sex, and their ideals on the gobernment. -
March Against Death
300,000 students marched to Washington D.C. to show their support for the antiwar movements -
Earth Day
The first Earth Day was celebrated -
US Invation of Cambodia
The North Vietnam troops increased their offensive into Cambodia provoking the South Vietnamese -
Kent State shooting
Students rioted after Nixon invaded Cambodia, resulting in 4 deaths after the National Guard started fireing at the protesters -
Jackson State College Shootings
Mississippi police fired into a women's dorm killing 2 students -
University of Wisconsin Bombing
A group of 3 people bombed a sicence building killed one student. -
The Penagon Papers
Nixon initiated the Huston plan that infiltrated into the privacy of American lives and got to the point of breaking and entering to gather or plant evidence, the Pentagon Papers were placed in the media for all to see despite Nixon's skepticism, The Supreme Court ruled the printing of the papers constitutional under the first amendment -
Roe vs. Wade
abolished the state practices of using birth control and the option of abortion