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1968 Vietnam War
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USS Pueblo captured
Boat was captured by North Korean patrol boats and the people on board were taken and not released for 11 months http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/1968/reference/timeline.html -
Turning point for American attitude
The North Vietnamese decided to take the battle from the jungles to the cities, used 70,000 troops adn invaded the US embassy in Saigon at 2:45 am, held them until 9:15
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Highest casualty toll
The US state department annouced the previous week, 543 Americans killed in action and 2547 wounded
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MLK Violent speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech which turned violent and a 16 yr old black boy is killed, 60 injureed and 150 arrested
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King Dies
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis, by one 30-06 round by a guy named James Earl Ray -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia with over 200,000 warsaw pact troops, putting an end to the "Prague Spring," and beginning a period of enforced and oppressive "normalization."
http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/1968/reference/timeline.html
