1968The Year That Rocked The World

Mark Kurlansky

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

and Protests

Black Power/Equalitiy

• King and Carmichael • SNCC (Student

Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee)

• Sit-ins • Smith and Carlos

Vietnam

• Worst year of war

• Draft = protests

• Walter Cronkite

• Abbie Hoffman

• Political Issue in election

Election Year

Sen. Robert Kennedy Eugene McCarthy

V.S

Biafran War

• Nigerians cut rebel Biafrans off from outside world

• People Starving• No way of sending

supplies to starving people

Summer Olympics/Mexico

Czechoslovakia/Soviets

• Alexander Dubcek• Closely tied with Soviet

Union • Dubcek started to hint

at multi-party government – closer to democracy

• Soviets Invaded

France

• Students in universities were EXTREMELY limited

• Cohn-Bendit • “Paris was wonderful

then, everyone was talking”

• Enrages

Yippies/Student Protests

• Youth International Party

• Word of protests spread to Europe

• Columbia University• Chicago Festival of Life