There were a number of political protests, uprisings and events that occurred in 1968, predominately by young people who wished to challenge the conventional political, social and economic ideas of the time. Events included the following:
Throughout the United States there were protests against the Vietnam war, such as those at the Columbia University protests of 1968.
May 1968 in France : when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Slovak Alexander Dubček came to power, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and members of its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt the reforms.
Robert F. Kennedy assassination: The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, California
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968
In the book "1968: The Year That Rocked the World" by Mark Kurlansky, he described the: "Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement and the Tet Offensive, the student rebellion that paralyzed France, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the birth of the women's movement"
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