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Counterculture and the New Left Chronology New Left - named in contrast to the “old left” of 1930s, rejected both Stalinism and McCarthyism, believed in social democracy, influenced by the civil rights movement Students for Democratic Society - broad democratic student movement, concerned with poverty, civil rights, antiwar protest The Free Speech Movement - privileged students critiqued the hypocrisy of the univeristy system, influenced by the Beats, civil rights The Antiwar Movement - against the war in Vietnam, initially students, but then became broader, included working class and minorities Counterculture - cultural expression of the “New Left,” encompassed rock music, sexual revolution, groups like hippies, Yippies Important events: 1962 Port Huron Statement by SDS 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley 1967 Summer of Love at Haight-Ashbury, San Fransisco 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago 1969 Woodstock SDS self-destructs and fragments; the Weathermen formed as a splinter group Eddie Adamss Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of General Nguy?n Ng?c Loan executing Nguy?n V?n Lém, a Viet Cong officer. My Lai massacre US Soldier’s testimony, Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam Jane Fonda in North Vietnam in 1972 AntiWar Protests in San Fransco - from pickets to violence The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (also known in Cuba as the Playa Girón after the beach in the Bay of Pigs where the landing took place) was an unsuccessful United States-planned and funded attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba. An attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro, this action accelerated a rapid deterioration in Cuban-American relations, worsened by the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The name Bay of Pigs comes from Bahia de Cochinos, where in all probability Cochino refers to a species of Triggerfish (Balistes vetula) [1], rather than pigs Sus scrofa. October 14, 1962 when U.S. reconnaissance imagery revealing Soviet nu