SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vietnam Day Committee, Nuclear Arms Race, Agent Orange

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

By the time we got to woodstock, we were half a million strong, and everywhere there was song and celebration. And i dreamed i saw the bombers jet planes riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation (crosby, stills, nash & young). Repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed (j. steinbeck) Struggled to maintain a national identity and to create a soviet, communist political reality. Northern ireland civil rights group formed to protest: Discrimination in workplace, housing allocation, political representation. Civil rights march attacked by police and loyalist gangs. Marks a major turning point in irish politics of the 1960s. With the violent backlash against the crm in the north, and the absence of any real political participation war. France had fought in indochina (french forces: 75,581 dead, 64,127 wounded, 40,000 captured) It was such a strange year, 1968, young people almost everywhere in the world began to rebel.