"We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. The search for a truly democratic alternative is fundamentally important to us. We seek a participatory democracy in which the individual shares in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life." — Port Huron Statement, SDS, 1962
SDS membership exploded after which 1965 escalation?
- A
The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Bcheck_circle
President Johnson's deployment of combat troops to Vietnam
- C
The Bay of Pigs
- D
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Explanation
Operation Rolling Thunder bombing and combat troop deployment in 1965 made Vietnam the focus of student activism, swelling SDS rolls.