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Because there was so much change taking place in the world that year or events. Like assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.. The realization that the govt was lying to us about winning the Vietnam War, and the various movements taking place such as Aim, the Chicano movement , gay rights movement . Basically a lot of change taking place in the U.S. and in France.

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Q: Why is 1968 called a watershed year?
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