-What Made the 1970 Killings of Four Students Who Were

question 35

Multiple Choice

-What made the 1970 killings of four students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University so ironic?

• A) Americans feared that a war undertaken to protect American democracy was instead of destroying it.
• B) The four victims had just been drafted to go serve in Vietnam and Cambodia.
• C) Nixon had recently called the student protestors such as those at Kent State "bums blowing up campuses" while the public perceived them as martyrs.
• D) The Kent State shootings unmasked the "town and gown" divide that resulted in counterprotests to support the war.

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