1968

[Comrade Zeke]

1968
The year that changed the world forever.........lets see what happened:

Tet Offensive Veitnam
Woodstock
US Democratic Primaries in Chicago
Major Riots
Nixon Becomes President
Martin Luther King is Assinated
Robert Kenndy is Assinated
Prauge Spring


What other effents are there and do you think 1968 changed the world???

sorry about spelling
Zeke

[Guest1]

I think the 60's could have changed the world, unfortunately it was mostly cultural revolutions and not political.

One needs to go hand in hand with the other for any lasting change to occur. If you have a cultural revolution, the atmosphere and society will be more accepting and social for a while, but will revert back and probably go worse within a decade or two.

This happened with the 60's, just look at what the 80's were.

Next, you can't have a political revolution that lasts very long without a cultural revolution to compliment and cement it.

Just look at Russia, China, all the failed revolutions that changed institutions for the better temporarily, then reverted and became corrupted because the attitude and social atmosphere had not caught up.

[edit: stop apologizing for your spelling]

[Hiero]

There was major land grabs in Palastine as well.

[Eastside Revolt]

S.D.S. Occupation of U.B.C Faculty Club

On October 23rd of 1968 yippie Jerry Rubin spoke to a crowd of over 600 students at Simon Fraser University. He told the crowd that he had lied to Canadian border officials and that he did stand for the overthrow of the Canadian government.
"We have to destroy this university system, destroy this building, take it over!" he announced to the crowd.
On Thursday October 24th, Rubin and 2,000 students invaded the University of British Columbia's faculty club. Inspired by Rubin's speech days before and the May uprising in Paris, the students, many of whom were members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society, decided to take over the wealthy club. S.D.S. demanded that the club be open to everyone and denounced it as an authoritarian institution. The next day they left the building with over $5,000 dollars in alcohol and other goods while Rubin spoke to a crowd of more than 2,000 students.
The next day, on Saturday the 26th, 1,500 people marched to the U.S. consulate to protest the war against Vietnam.

[kingbee]

european universities taken over, paris erupts into riots- the fifth (?) republic almost falls.

[BOZG]

How could you possibly have not given May '68 a title on its own? Possibly the most important event of the 60s. Had the Republic fallen and the revolutionary mood carried through, it would have had massive shockwaves throughout the world. Such a situation could very easily have been far more significant than the October Revolution.

[VukBZ2005]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31 2004, 09:04 AM
How could you possibly have not given May '68 a title on its own? Possibly the most important event of the 60s. Had the Republic fallen and the revolutionary mood carried through, it would have had massive shockwaves throughout the world. Such a situation could very easily have been far more significant than the October Revolution.
Well there is a topic about this Stephen - Which adresses this very same Subject
of May 1968...i can get the link for you...