HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: De-Stalinization, Counterculture, Non-Aligned Movement
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Student new left took to the streets in may to protest. Workers quickly joined in with a mass strike. Prime minister de gaulle briefly fled, leaving the country in a power vacuum. Momentum fizzled in june and july, leading to restoration. Still considered a cultural turning point for the country, and spurred similar outbursts worldwide. Historians divide us new left into years of hope and days of rage with 1967-1968 as. Thousands protested dnc in chicago in 1968. Student movement radicalized and splintered in 1968-1969. Many parallels with the goals and criticisms coming from the western new left. Soviet invasion and repression spurred sympathy protests. 1966-1970 reorganized political coalition unidad popular began gaining momentum. 1970 salvador allende elected president of chile. 1970-1973 students and factory workers pushed allende"s policies to the left, led by. 1973 us-backed coup ousts allende growing mir. All-campus struggle committees (zenkyoto) forms in late 1960s, adopting strategies of.
