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The Selective Service Act or 1948 established the military draft
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student protesters clash with campus officials at the university of California
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most of the troops in Vietnam were draftees not volunteers
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MLK said that the war was hurting both African American and the poor white communities
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U.S. general Westmoreland said that the Vietcong could not launch a large scale attack
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Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy an announces his participation in the next presidential election
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Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 1968
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the vietcong begin the Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee
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The draft was turned more into a lottery system rather than just pulling from one group of people