Pompidou negotiates the Grenelle Accords
1968 · Event
The prime minister buys off the general strike of May 1968 with a 35 per cent rise in the minimum wage.
On these timelines: Master, France
Around 1968
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Beatles (1960)