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On May 4, 1970 at approximately 12:24 PM members of the Ohio National Guard shot at and killed several unarmed Kent State University students. These students were protesting President Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia. While some of the students who were shot at were actively protesting at the time of the shooting, others were simply walking by or casually observing the protest from a distance. How could an appalling incident like this occur? What possessed the members of the Ohio National Guard to shoot at unarmed students?

The student body at Kent State numbered about 20,000 and had been considered conservative, but not overly political. In fact they were thought of as rather passive politically. The shootings were a culmination of four days of demonstrations by members of the student body. The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia by American forces.

People who were over the age of 30+ were for the war. On May 4th 1970 Richard Nixon gave a speech explaining on how he was going to send more troops in to Vietnam to help the war effort, so this caused riot and chaos in Kent State University, 4 students were gunned down by State troops and 9 students

According to Jeff Hay, Nixon “like the protestors, he wanted to stop the war, end the draft, and stop the killing.” When Nixon changed his mind and realized we had to be involved many people around the country got very upset that he did something he said he was going to do the opposite of. When Nixon declared that the U.S. would be staying in Vietnam to fight in the War these students go very upset. This action caused a lot of protesting in Washington D.C., Kent State and many other places (Hay). The anger of the students led to protesting, which led to violence, which ultimately lead to the national guard firing on a group of about 1,000 young students (Kifner). In “The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy” “The decision to bring the Ohio National Guard onto the Kent State University campus was directly related to decisions regarding American involvement in the Vietnam War” (Lewis). Without the announcement from President Nixon, of the involvement in the Vietnam war, the Shooting at Kent State would have not taken place. The shooting was not Nixon’s fault, but I think that it made students really mad that they had been told something different than what he was really going to do. It sparked a lot of fire in these people and led to a violent

The shooting and the day before. “Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War.” (Kent State Shooting, National Geographic). People believe this may have been the downfall to richard nixon but that is only opinionated. Considering the fact that the dates are so close, people believe it was because of Nixon. Indeed it was a protest rally for the Vietnam war to try to end violence, it ended in violence. It was immediate caos. The total number of deaths was four. The total number of non-fatal injuries was nine. This rally was supposed to be a peaceful protest but it ended with those numbers.

The Vietnam War was a controversial subject on its own, however on May 4th, 1970, the tense relationship between young adults and governmental authority would reach a peak frequency, when the National Guard opened fire on college students in Ohio. Some of the students were protesting, even to a violent point, by throwing rocks and yelling at the Guardsmen. Others were simply carrying on with their lives, at a time where the war was expanding, not only across Asia, but across American classrooms and schools.

The student body at Kent State numbered about 20,000 and had been considered conservative, but not overly political. In fact they were thought of as rather passive politically. The shootings were a culmination of four days of demonstrations by members of the student body. The students were protesting the invasion of Cambodia by American forces.

It’s 1931, and Germany is in a massive post World War I depression. The unemployment rate is at 70% and millions of Germans are jobless. People have lost hope and faith in their country, and Germany in itself is starting to lose respect worldwide. A glimmer of hope came when Berlin was chosen as the host city for the 1936 summer Olympics. This was two years prior to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, and Germany was still under the rule of President Hindenburg. In an attempt to rejuvenate Germany, Hitler vowed that he would give every German citizen what they wanted. As Chancellor, Hitler promises the unsatisfied Germans an improved life

The students walked to the door as George Wallace, the governor of Alabama at the time, stood in front of the entrance to the school to not let them in. The governor was removed by national guardsmen from Alabama ordered to the school by president John F. Kennedy (University…). The students

Kent State was like any other university in America in the 70s. Students were there to expand their knowledge while they explored all the other abundant things college had to offer them. Along with several other universities at the time, Kent State began seeing a rise in student protests. Many students around the U.S. began speaking out against the controversial Vietnam War, showing their anti-war views in hopes of being heard. “In late April of 1970 . . . the United States invaded Cambodia and widened the Vietnam War,” causing even more widespread outrage and anger, especially among youth (Lewis, Hensley, “The May 4 Shootings at Kent State Univeristy: the Search for Historical Accuracy”). As the days went on after this declaration was made, the

Members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the unarmed students in Kent University on May4, 1970, widely known as the Kent State massacre or the Kent State shootings, is one of the most significant event in American history. This event criticise the democracy that Americans are traditionally proud of and, peaks the anti-war sentiment to result over four millions of students protested and more than 850 universities and collage closed follow by the rest of the school year. Four were killed and nine had suffered wounds after the thirteen seconds shooting by twenty-eight guardsman. According to the students, it was unreasonable for the guardsman to fire into the crowd. It was all the National Guard’s fault and they were told to do so by the officer. However, the guardsman said they were put in a life threaten situation during their duty and therefore, open fired as to protect themselves. Whether if the guards were ordered to be shot or fired in

The German government holds the most responsibility for the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. They deliberately made choices that compromised the Olympic Village’s security and were not prepared for an attack. The government failed to make sure the Olympic teams were safe and that negligence made the abduction possible. Even after the Israeli team was taken hostage, the German authorities botched multiple rescue plans and their sloppiness and unpreparedness caused mistakes that led to the Israeli team’s execution. The main reasons the German government is to blame is their failure to prepare and their inability to respond.

The Failure of Democracy in Germany in the Period 1928 to 1934 Those in power in Weimar Germany so consistently mishandled the political and economic situation leading up to the period 1928-1934, that a well-structured challenge from the Nazi Party brought about the fall of democracy. This Nazi Party was stronger ideologically, structurally within the party and politically, with Hitler as Fuhrer a major factor himself. In addition, factions within Germany for whom a right-wing political system was more beneficial, such as the army and big business, aided the eventual change in governance. Thus a series of events occurred which can be summarised by these three main factors: failure of the Weimar

Soon after Hitler took power in 1933, questions began to arise from the United States and other Western democracies of whether or not they should support the idea of the Olympic Games hosted by the Nazi Regime. America was particularly concerned about the persecution of Jewish athletes that lived in Germany in 1933. In the United States, debate over participation in the 1936 Olympics was a hot topic. The U.S. always sent one of the largest teams to the Olympics. Groups on either side of the debate stated strong views of whether the United States should participate in the Olympics in Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Florian Breitmeier endorses this view of a virulent response to victory in 1954. He describes a scene in which 85,000 fans greet the players in the Olympic Stadium. Traditional symbols were omnipresent as the crowd waved German flags distributed by the Bild-Zeitung, while President Heuss read aloud the third verse of the national anthem. There is, however, some dispute as to the nature of the celebration. Hans-Peter Schwarz describes national identification at the time of victory as ‘sehr begrenzt’, and warns us ‘vor übertriebenen Vorstellungen’, explaining that the celebration tended towards a more regional appreciation of the victory: ‘Eher kam jeweils eine regionale oder lokale Identifikation mit einzelnen Spielern zum Ausdruck.’ There seems little doubt that the response to the victory