America in 1968
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- America in 1968
- Tet Offensive
- Attack on South Vietnam
- By Communist North led by Ho Chi Minh
- Americans watched on TV as US embassy was taken by Communists
- In Southern capital, Saigon
- Creditability Gap
- Made Johnston and the Democrats look bad
- Showed difference between what Johnston said and what actually happened
- Johnston said he wouldn't stand for re-election
- young people stared the 'clean for 'gene' campaign
- supported Eugene McCarthy's anti-war bid
- young people stared the 'clean for 'gene' campaign
- MLK/ Black Power
- Black Civil Rights Leader killed
- Martin Luther King
- Famous for his 'I have a Dream speech'
- Assassinated April 1968 in Memphis
- Uproar and violence broke out
- Previously Peaceful Protestors
- Riots showed large divided between blacks and whites
- Showed amount of violence in America
- Birth of Black Panthers
- Highlighted white racism
- Black Civil Rights Leader killed
- Bobby Kennedy
- Ran for Democratic President
- believed in Black Equality
- Effect brother's death had on him
- Due to his beliefs he was assasinated
- 5th June 1968
- supported Blacks, Minorities and those in poverty
- Kennedy gone easier for Johnston to control Democrats
- Hope that Humphrey would be able to bet Nixon
- Demonstrated Violence
- Violence turned people to Nixon
- Counter Culture
- Hippies
- Clothes
- Natural material
- Charity Shops
- Tie Dyed
- Men- Beards
- Women- No Bras or makeup
- Suffered Hallucination from drugs they took
- Maijuana
- Then... LSD
- Maijuana
- Clothes
- Yippies
- Youth International Party
- Violent
- Extreme Drug use
- took part in illegal protests
- People became tried of protests
- People disliked their violence
- People turned to Nixon who promised peace and harder laws
- Hippies
- Political Failures
- Pride low due to war
- Disapproved involvment
- Democratic Convention
- 28th August 1968 in Chicago
- No strong candidate
- splits over Anti-war
- Led by Eugene McCarthy
- splits over Anti-war
- Hippies, Yippies and Young People spread rumour.
- Supposedly put LSD in Chicago water supply
- Hippies, Yippies and Young People
- entered candidate into election
- Called 'Pigasus' it was a squealing, young pig
- 'one pig is as good as another'
- entered candidate into election
- Pride low due to war
- Economy
- Serious economic crisis since great depression in 1930
- Unemployment
- 3.6%
- Minimum Wage
- $1.60
- Vietnam war cost
- $140 billion in direct costs
- Inflation
- 4.7%
- Deficit Bill
- $153.72 billion caused mainly by war
- Economy not doing well
- Nixon needed to promise reduce deficit in the hope of becoming president
- Women's Movement
- Civil Rights catalyst for feminist movement
- Betty Friedan
- wrote a book 1963
- 'Feminine Mystique'
- talked about how women were trapped due to gender discrimination
- wrote a book 1963
- Legislative Reform
- Title VII of 1963 Civil Rights Act
- Ban on discrimination in employment due to gender
- Title VII of 1963 Civil Rights Act
- Activists formed National Organisation for Women (NOW) 1966
- Pressure group to fight equal rights
- large numbers of people sympathised women
- believed equality no longer funny
- Conservative criticised that women liberals
- Believed they were the reason for falling birth rates & increasing divorces and abortions
- Tet Offensive
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