The Student's Movement

Question 1

What does SDS stand for?

Answer 1

Students for a Democratic Society.

Question 2

When was SDS set up?

Answer 2

1959

Question 3

What did the University of California do in 1964?

Answer 3

Some civil rights workers were forbidden from recruiting on campus.

Question 4

What was the result of the University of California situation?

Answer 4

Students occupied the administration buildings.

Question 5

What did Stop the draft week entitle in October 1967?

Answer 5

Students and others took part in a strong march on the Pentagon.

Question 6

What made students even angrier about the Vietnam war?

Answer 6

It got worse in 1965 and there was a threat of the draft (conscription to the army).

Question 7

What did the SDS do in April 1968?

Answer 7

There was a student takeover of Columbia University for 8 days which resulted in around 700 arrests.

Question 8

Why did the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in August 1968 become notorious?

Answer 8

The clashes between thousands of police and anti-war demonstrators.

Question 9

What happened at Kent State University in Ohio?

Answer 9

National Guardsmen opened fire on student anti-war demonstrators killing four students.

Question 10

When did the Kent State University incident occur?

Answer 10

1970

Question 11

What were the new lifestyles that young people experimented with?

Answer 11

Rock music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom and religious experimentation.

Question 12

What were significant events in the Student movement?

Answer 12

‘Summer of love’ in 1967 and Woodstock Music Festival in 1969.

Question 13

What did singers like Bob Dylan write songs about?

Answer 13

Political issues like the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement.

Question 14

What were hippies?

Answer 14

Drop-outs from mainstream life.

Question 15

What were the original aims of the SDS?

Answer 15

To obtain more say in how universities and courses were run for students.

Question 16

Which other campaigns were students involved in?

Answer 16

The Black Civil Rights campaign and the women’s movement.

Question 17

Why did students get involved in the other campaigns?

Answer 17

They were appalled at the injustices experienced by black people and they were strengthened by the influence they had.

Question 18

How did students respond when universities tried to ban their protests?

Answer 18

Students responded with a ‘free speech’ campaign to demand the right to protest.

Question 19

What were the students rejecting?

Answer 19

The values and society that their parents had created.

Question 20

How did students feel about nuclear weapons?

Answer 20

They backed campaigns for nuclear disarmament.

Question 21

Apart from protesting on campus, how else did students protest?

Answer 21

They took part in marches, freedom rides, demonstrations, sit-ins, they burnt their draft cards and they occupied buildings.

Question 22

How did the student movement in the 1960s progress?

Answer 22

It became more organised, more large-scale and more organised.

Question 23

Why did the student movement have a big impact?

Answer 23

The students involved were mainly middle class, educated and white.

Question 24

Why had students protested at Kent State University?

Answer 24

Demonstrations began because President Nixon, despite having promised to withdraw troops from Vietnam, had instead sent troops into neighbouring Cambodia and Laos to fight North Vietnamese there.