1960s: The French Revolution

The 1960s were described as the decade of revolutions that never came. As the highest point of the post-war world II era, the 1968 and 70s changed countries society structure. During the 1960s, the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam war had a major impact on American society. At the same time riots spread across Europe, France, Italy and in the East. During the Spring of 1968 many important movement development violence on campuses from Japan to Italy to Mexico, The U.S. anti-War movement, and Prague Spring. However, France had one of the most important uprisings since the Great revolution of 1789. In May of 1968, students and police officers collide in the street of Paris burning cars and barricade. Students and half of the French
Students of Columbia University protest university support of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war. However, the protest which occurs in Paris and other cities in France change the foundation of France society. The student revolt began as a protest against visitor of the opposite sex in dorm rooms at a Suburban Paris campus. On March 22, radical student and associate occupied an administration building in Nanterre University. The students and associate held a meeting dealing with class discrimination in France society and bureaucracy government which controlled the university’s foundation. The conflict between the student and the police followed and by May 2 the administration of the university of Paris at Nanterre shut down the university. The following day students of Sorbonne university protested the closure and the expulsion of several students in Nanterre. In May 5 students had a general assembly and the police close down and surrounded Nanterre. (Ed/ Children in
The 1960s and 70s are characterized by a worldwide struggle “Against work and exploitation, against the state, against class society, against authority, against racial, sexual and gender repression, against war, against the stifling morality and conformities of daily life” (Ed). Immigrant policies in France where loosened allowing North African and Sub-Saharan Africans immigration to increased. Equality in the workplaces for women became widely accepted and many gender role in families where broken. The 1968 uprising set a political foundation that brought to power the French Socialists in 1981, this sets a street demonstration as a lasting part of modern French political theater. (Everson/ Children in