Paris 1968: The Students' Revolt (TRIH ep 353, part 1)
1968 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook report from Paris to tell the story of May 1968. They set the scene—postwar France, rapid expansion of university education, grim suburban overspill campuses (notably Nanterre), and a hierarchical, paternalistic society under Charles de Gaulle.
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Around 1968
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Beatles (1960)