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1971 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.
Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration in Washington, DC April 24, 1971. After the last veteran had thrown his medals, "fourteen Navy and Distinguished Service Crosses, one hundred Silver Stars, and more than a thousand Purple Hearts lay on the ground." [4]: p.115 Many of the veterans felt immense relief. It "was the defining moment of my life ...
Anti-war activists attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released. May 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark ; the central banks of Austria , Belgium , Netherlands and Switzerland stop ...
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Arab–Israeli conflict (Early 20th century–present) Egyptian military vehicles crossing the Suez Canal on October 7, 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. Yom Kippur War (1973) – the war was launched by Egypt and Syria against Israel in October 1973 to recover territories lost by the Arabs in the 1967 conflict. The ...
The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5.
Protests against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 1971 At least 200,000 people in Washington, D.C., [ 94 ] and 125,000 in San Francisco marched in protest against the Vietnam War . The Soyuz 10 cosmonauts made the first ever attempt by a spacecraft to dock with a space station, achieving a partial docking with Salyut 1 at 01:47 ...
By the summer of 1971, Nixon was under strong public pressure to act decisively to reverse the economic tide. On August 15, 1971, he ended the convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold, which meant the demise of the Bretton Woods system, in place since World War II. As a result, the U.S. dollar fell in world markets.
"Make love, not war" is an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War , but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since, around the world.