PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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Tet Offensive in 1968
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Nixon’s extension of the war into Cambodia in 1970
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964
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My La Massacre in 1968
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Detailed explanation-1: -Krause and Miller were among the more than 300 students who gathered to protest the expansion of the Cambodian campaign, which President Richard Nixon had announced in an April 30 television address.
Detailed explanation-2: -On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R.
Detailed explanation-3: -In May 1970, students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Students’ adamant demand for a strike stemmed from the US government’s involvement in the Vietnam War and the shooting of four students by National Guardsmen during a demonstration at Kent State University.
Detailed explanation-5: -The student strike of 1970 was a massive protest across the United States, that included walk-outs from college and high school classrooms initially in response to the United States expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Nearly 900 campuses nationwide participated.