In May 1970, thousands of students protested the Vietnam War at colleges across the United States. Students occupied their campuses, shutting down classes and visibly protesting the war in fervent degrees that
During the 1960's and 1970's there was a movement in our nation towards peaceful living. A lot of Americans were opposed to war, so when we entered the Vietnam war protests and demonstrations took place. War tactics including the massacre of a Vietnamese village were exposed, in addition...
Kent State Massacre May 4, 1970 National Guardsmen kill four unarmed students of Kent State University (Ohio) during a Vietnam War protest. Two of the students killed were bystanders. Read More 6 20Copy to Share This Entry Mob beats Freedom Riders in Birmingham, Alabama ...
Michael Hunt is a historian who works for the University of North Colorado and was also there during the Vietnam War. Hunt’s book was written to talk about former President Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam war. The book’s purpose is to show us some of the causes and consequences of ...
1970 marked the end of the swinging sixties, a time in American history filled with flower power, Beatlemania, devastating assassinations, the beginning of the Vietnam War, and the rise of the Manson Family. The end of the decade was a mixed bag, to say the least, and the 1970s emerged...
Inflation in the US was mostly the result of the Vietnam war. Inflation began in 1965 with the debasement of US currency by removing silver from the coins and the undermining of the Constitutional requirement to exchange paper money for silver. ...
the author did not write the song toprotestthe Viet Nam war or the deaths on the Kent State campus, he wrote and recorded it to shed light on the Sunset Strip riots in Los Angeles. When Pandora’s Box, a club on the strip for teenaged youth, closed in November 1966, the protests ...
"I raised my concerns that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board of a company owned by somebody that the U.S. government had spent money trying to get tens of millions of dollars back [from], and that could create the perception of a conflict of interest," Kent said ...
The killing of four unarmed student war protesters by the National Guard at Ohio's Kent State University in 1970 sparked nationwide protests that shut down many of the country's colleges. The distrust of government sparked by opposition to the war in Vietnam grew greater as political scandals ...
21K The Vietnam War sparked a domestic response of protests and draft dodging that reached its height in the 60s and 70s. Discover the causes of dissent toward the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and the protests and other acts of defiance that arose in response. Related...