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The United States during 1968 to 1974 was headed towards revolution, a trend that ended with sobering Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation. Many minority groups saw this era as a time to vent their frustration, leading to increased dissatisfaction. Martin Luther King’s assassination had sent a message to many in the civil rights movements that non-violence was not the answer. Many advocates of a peaceful withdrawal from Vietnam found their hopes betrayed as Robert Kennedy was assassinated and Eugene McCarthy lost the primaries to Humphrey, who was not anti-war. Vietnam was at it’s worst in 1968-9, and Nixon’s policies in Vietnam only exacerbated the opposition to the war. In the middle of these great social upheavals, Nixon’s resignation was the wake-up call that brought the nation to its senses and ended the path to revolution.

Many minority groups, like Chicanos, Native Americans, Women, African Americans, and rich, white, college students, found that they......

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