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 * time period 1945-today
+=== Civil Rights Movement ===
+* '''Birmingham protests'''
+** violent police attacks on peaceful protestors at the "Birmingham bridge"
+** were televised and made national news
+*** outraged the American public that previously that the Civil Rights movement didn't involve them
+** Martin Luther King was arrested and put in jail following Birmingham protest
+*** he wrote his "'''Letter from a Birmingham Jail'''"
+**** outlined the reason for his protest
+**** his commitment to "'''non-violent protest'''"
+**** = peaceful demonstration and peaceful violation of unjust laws
+****
+=== Vietnam ===
+* President Johnson, 1963-1969
+** launched direct American involvement in Vietnam in the 1964 "Gulf of Tonkin" incident
+** oversaw "escalation" of US involvement in Vietnam war
+**
+* \President Nixon, 1969-1974
+** elected in 1968 with goal to "win then end" the Vietnam War
+** this meant "'''Vietnamization'''"
+*** = moving responsibility for the war to the Vietnamese people
+*** supporting them without having to be there directly
+** 1970 changes in the draft rules
+*** Nixon took away the education exemption from the draft
+*** which meant that college students were eligible for the draft
+*** this led to huge increase in protests
+**** including the '''Kent State''' shooting
+**** a protest at Kent State University in Ohio
+**** Ohio National Guardsman shot at protesters and killed 4
+**** US public was outraged
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