Exercises for May 1968

The student mobilization of May 1968 was inspired by a series of events and struggle movements of the time. Select the alternative below that brings a movement that did not have repercussions on French student movements in the context in question:

a) Vietnam War

b) African American Civil Rights Movement

c) Decolonization of Africa

d) South American Guerrillas

e) Yom Kippur War

The 1968 protests actually started in March and it wasn't until May that they spread with great impetus throughout France. Select the alternative below that brings the unit of the University of Paris where it all began:

a) Sorbonne

b) Saint-Denis

c) Nanterre

d) Creteil

e) Dauphine

May 1968 became well known for slogans and sayings questioning the values ​​of western society that were spread by students. Select the alternative below that brings one of the phrases popularized by them in 1968:

a) “Will not pass.”

b) “God is dead.”

c) “The strike, in essence, is the language of the unheard.”

d) “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

e) “Be realistic, ask for the impossible.”

May 1968 threatened the stability of the French Fifth Republic, but the movement ended up failing to achieve political changes in the country. The French ruler who was at the center of the protests and won an important victory in the June 1968 elections was:

a) Édouard Daladier

b) Philippe Pétain

c) Charles de Gaulle

d) Jacques Chirac

e) Daniel Cohn-Bendit

LETTER E

Of all the events cited, the only one that does not fit the context of May 1968 is the Yom Kippur War, as this Arab-Israeli conflict took place in 1973. All others events cited, in a certain way, had repercussions in the French student movements of the period.

LETER C

The events of May 1968 actually began in March of that year with the mobilization of students from the University of Paris unit located in Nanterre. It all started when students invaded the university administration in response to the punishment they had suffered for protesting the Vietnam War. From the movement in Nanterre came Daniel Cohn-Bendit, an important student leader during May 1968.

LETTER E

From May 1968 onwards, numerous phrases, such as “It is forbidden to prohibit”, were coined by student movements and were immortalized. Specifically in this question, the correct answer is alternative E, because:the first sentence dates back to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); the second was written by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Gay Science; the third is by Martin Luther King Jr., and the fourth sentence is by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

LETTER C

Charles de Gaulle was President of France from 1959 to 1969 and responsible for inaugurating the period of French history known as the Fifth Republic. He had been active in the fight against the Nazis during World War II and had headed a resistance government. During May 1968, the French president was heavily criticized by students and his government was threatened, however, he survived when his party won a majority in the June elections of that year.