Purchase Solution

The 1968 Democratic Convention Protest

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

I need some guidance on the following: One commentator has called 1968 the Summer of Hate. During this year, the Tet offensive began in January, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis in April, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in June, and protestors and police clashed on television at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. What were the protestors in Chicago unhappy about? How did these events affect the election of 1968?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Gives a brief history with refrences of what led up to the protest of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, IL

Solution Preview

If you look at the history of the Vietnam War you will find the answer but I will some this up as simple as possible but please realize that we are here to help and not to do your work so I ask that you take what I say and do some deeper research in order to answer this question in your own way.

The Vietnam War had esculated to the point that it was truly a stand off between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The Tet offensive is what sent us from being just consultants to being allies with South Vietnam. Men, or I should say boys, were being drafted right out of high school or recruited right out of high school at the age of eighteen. They were given a shortened training period and being sent off to Vietnam. Please understant that until this day, the American Goverment claims we were never in a War.

Many historians believe that the shot that ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
US World History Test I

Discusses the events that happen during the 15th through the 19th Century.

The U.S. Constitution

How much do you know about the U.S. Constitution? Test your knowledge with this short quiz!

Social Studies European Review

A knowledge base of history is important to understanding our world today. Take a few moments on this quick review of Europe.

Native American Removal

This quiz covers the history surrounding the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Basic quiz about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Lasting lessons from 1968 in America

    387159 During 1968 what did our county learn from everything that was happening? What did the 1968 march at the Chicago Democratic Convention prove?

  • The death of the 60s.

    The focus is the violence of the 1968 Democratic Convention, as a culmination of the fruitless victories of the counter-culture. The Establishment is seen as victorious, restoring order by year's end with Nixon's election victory.

  • Why do former Vietnam protestors not protest the current war

    That said, the war caused all sorts of havoc at home -- riots during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, campus unrest, controversy, and the return of 200 or so body bags each week.

  • Vietnam War dissent

    To illustrate, you might even cite how the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 was "disrupted by protests in the streets, resulting in massive arrests and brutal attacks on the protestors by the Chicago police" (http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries

  • Questions in Community Policing: Chicago

    •How did the national view of the Chicago Police Department and use of the police by the Mayor and political authorities during the Democratic National Convention in 1968 highlight the need for the change toward a new model of policing strategy?

  • The failure of 60s lberalism

    Eugene McCarthy called it "the hard year," as icons RFK and MLK were assassinated, the Tet Offensive exposed forever the futility of Vietnam, the Democratic National Convention became a TV show about violence meeting social protest, and perhaps most damaging

  • Shirley Chisholm

    The 1972 Democratic Convention was in July in Miami, and it was the first major convention in which an African American woman was considered for the presidential nomination.

  • Chicago Community Policing

    fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1968&issue_id=122009 •How did the national view of the Chicago Police Department and use of the police by the Mayor and political authorities during the Democratic National Convention in 1968 highlight the need

  • Vietnam War & Student Unrest

    that the nation had had enough, and that without something swift and national, the administration could only expect more of the same nationwide, much as it did during the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968.

View More Related Solutions