1968
Protests, uprisings and crackdowns across the world in a single year.
- When
- —
- Duration
- 1 years
- Known to
- ± 1 year
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
Czechoslovakia's attempt at socialism with a human face is crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks in August. In the same year: the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the May events in Paris that nearly topple de Gaulle, the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, and student movements from Tokyo to Belgrade. The specific causes differ; the simultaneity is what makes 1968 a reference point.