1968 - Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond | Free Documentary History

1968 - Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond | History Documentary

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- In January 1968 a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese, known as the Tet Offensive, convinced many Americans that the war was not going to end very soon.
- Large-scale opposition flared against the Jonhson administration and its policies.
- Federal troops put down race riots while bitter protests erupted on campuses in the USA.
- In Paris that May, there was a “social revolution”.
- In Germany, a student movement driven by Rudi Dutschke reached a fever pitch.
- The optimistic “Prague Spring” provided fuel for the Soviet invasion later in the year.
- Two extraordinary champions for change, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, were brutally assassinated.
- The Mexico Olympics provided a big moment for 1968 with Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ black-gloved fists at the ceremonies.
- At the movies, ‘Barbarella’ caused a stir in the cinema. HAL the beginning of the computer age in Kubrick’s ‘2001’ and Charlton Heston’s dramatic realization in ‘Planet of the Apes’ were also signs of change.
- In music, Aretha Franklin hit the scene with ‘Think’. Mary Hopkin's iconic hit ‘Those Were the Days’ dominated the airwaves across the world, and the anthemic ‘Born to be Wild’ by Steppenwolf and Arthur Brown’s ‘Fire’ a backdrop to the times.
- In Space, the search for meaning developed with the first full picture of the Earth coming back from Apollo 8.

What a year.
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