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teach-in
a group of faculty members and students at the University of Michigan joined together and discussed the issues surrounding the war -
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
the SFRC held “educational” hearings on Vietnam They called in policy makers and critics to discuss the administration’s military strategy -
MLK publicly speaks about African Americans in the war
they accounted for almost 20 percent of combat-related deaths. This skewed death rate angered African American leaders -
McCarthy enters the race
McCarthy declared that he would challenge Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination -
Johnson would not run again
Johnson appeared on television and said I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President -
Tet Offensive
the Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a massive surprise attack during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year -
MLK's assassination
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray. -
Richard Nixon became the 37 president
Nixon defeated Humphrey by more than 100 electoral votes, although he only won the popular vote by a slim margin of 43 percent to 42 percent -
the lottery system was instituted
because so many Americans refused to serve the lottery system was made so only those with low numbers were subject to the draft -
Twenty-sixth Amendment
gave all citizens age 18 and older the right to vote after draftees argued that if they were old enough to fight, they were old enough to vote