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1948
The Selective Service Act or 1948 established the military draft -
1964
student protesters clash with campus officials at the university of California -
1965
most of the troops in Vietnam were draftees not volunteers -
1967
MLK said that the war was hurting both African American and the poor white communities -
1967
U.S. general Westmoreland said that the Vietcong could not launch a large scale attack -
1968
Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy an announces his participation in the next presidential election -
1968
Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 1968 -
1968
the vietcong begin the Tet Offensive -
1968
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee -
1969
The draft was turned more into a lottery system rather than just pulling from one group of people