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So many violent events took place:
1) assasination on Martin Luther King 2) assasination of Bobby Kennedy
3) Vietnam War getting very hot (Tet Offensive) and division within USA
4) Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
5) Protests, strikes, and riots everywhere in the world
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What was the Pugachev Uprising?
a major social upheaval
What year did the most troops die in Vietnam?
Early 60's, dozens per month, hundreds per year; mid-sixties onward over 5,000 a year. Averaged out from '60 to '70 over five thousand per year.
What was the only year that a British serviceman has not been killed in action since end of World War 2?
1968
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The abolition of slavery and the resultant social upheaval it caused is the greatest consequence of the Civil War.
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The U.S. involvement peaked in Vietnam in 1968. It was also the year for the highest number of casualties.
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