January 1968
Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Viet Cong temporarily seized the U.S. embassy in Saigon. This marked a turning point as the American public increasingly disapproved of the war.
Mar. 3, 1968
More than 1000 Chicano students walk out of Abraham Lincoln High School in L.A. in protest of school conditions. The student strike known as the L.A. Blowouts, would later have over 10,000 high school students walk out by the end of the week.
March 1968
My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens of Vietnam, mostly women and children, by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968, in the hamlets of My Lai and My Khe during the Vietnam War. Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, or mutilated. The incident prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced U.S. support at home for the war in Vietnam.
March 1968
SFSU Third World Liberation Front was formed with the Black Students Union, the Mexican American Student Confederation, the Philippine American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE), the Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action (ICSA), the Latin American Students Organization, and an American Indian student organization. The Asian American Political Alliance joined TWLF by summertime. A member of PACE was elected as the TWLF first chairperson.
April 4,1968
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His murder was followed by urban riots nationwide in up to 76 cities
April 6, 1968
Bobby Hutton, 16 years old and the first Black Panther Party recruit, was killed in Oakland during police raid of BPP headquarters.

June 30, 1968
Berkeley mayor Wallace Johnson declares a state of emergency and a three day curfew in the city in response to violence in the wake of student demonstrations in support of Paris, France May Uprising of students and workers the previous month.

November 1968
San Francisco State Strike begins. It was the longest student strike in U.S. history 167 days.
November 28-31, 1968
AAPA was part of a S.F. Bay Area delegation to the Montreal Hemispheric Conference to end the Vietnam War.

January 10,1969

UCB African American Students Union began to discuss publicly the need for action, including a possible strike. The AASU, Mexican-American Student Confederation (MASC), and the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) formed a united position and began to function as the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF).

January 21, 1969
UC Berkeley Third World Strike begins.

November 1969
Native Americans Reclaim Alcatraz Island: 78 Native Americans hold the island for nearly eighteen months, from Nov. 20, 1969, until June 11, 1971, reclaiming it as Indian land and demanding fairness and respect for Indian peoples. Thousands of Native Americans in total participated in the occupation during those years.

November 15, 1970
Asian Community Center relocates to International Hotel building at 846 Kearny Street. Landlord argues that his contract was with UFA and not ACC and therefore chooses to evict ACC from premises. ACC suspects that this had to do with political pressure from Chinese Six Companies. The Chinatown press had numerous articles accusing ACC activists to be the new Red Guards.

February 21, 1972
President Nixon visits Peoples Republic of China and begins normalizing relations between U.S. and China.

1973
The U.S.withdraws troops from Vietnam. By then, more than 57,000 United States lives and over 1 million Vietnamese lives were wasted. Many hundreds of thousand more lives were lost in the illegal IUS bombing campagns on Cambodia, an innocent neighboring state.
1974
Ron graduates from high school.