HIST 2057 Chapter : Revolts Of The 1960s
Document Summary
If you"re in college or graduate school then you are ineligible for the draft: many people surrounded the pentagon and tried to levitate it, people handed out flowers to people with guns. College students the bulk of the protestors: this group ends up becoming huge because they join sds, half a million young men evaded the draft. They were a domestic terrorist organization: end up blowing some people up. San fransisco in 1967 summer of love: claim they"re not interested in money. Nixon & carter years 1970s: ambivalence of nixon administration, attack on postwar liberalism, nixon said he would clean things up. Watergate is a big political scandal: begins to happen in 1972. Clear he is going to get re-elected: burgalars caught planting bugs in the in the democratic national headquarters involved with whitehouse, no idea why they were there even though it was clear that.
