1968+Notes

-No clear winner of war -Increase in American forces in SE Asia -VC proves to be guiding military in South Vietnam -America tries to “pacify” South Vietnam. Promote democratic government in villages -LBJ stays determined -Optimistic reports sent back -Public still supported America’s involvement -Tet Offensive -Attack on US strongholds throughout Southern Vietnam by the VC. Urban warfare -All plays out on nightly news; uncensored -US victory and Communist victory. Communists broke into US embassy -People began to protest the war after Tet -Eventually developed into a US victory that shook the public, who thought the enemy was close to defeat. -LBJ struggles -Congress cuts his Great Society budget -Openly criticized in public -New defense secretary claims the war is unwinnable -Johnson says that he is going to halt bombing. He says that he is not going to run for president again. -4 days later Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated -Race riots all across the country -Robert Kennedy steps up for the democrats -Front-runner to be president of the US -Tries to reunite the country -A Palestinian terrorist assassinates Kennedy -Election now between E. McCarthy and VP of LBJ -Mayor of Chicago bans protests -When protests occur, police forces are called -Dan Rather- news reporter gets hurt at democratic convention -Nixon gets nomination -George Wallace is the independent that is for segregation -Summer Olympics in Mexico city -Nixon wins the election. George Wallace had won five states -Popular vote is almost equal between Nixon and McCarthy -Watergate scandal

Before 1968 there were not as many protests