The events in Paris were followed by student protests throughout the world . The German student movement participated in major demonstrations against proposed emergency legislation . In many countries , the student protests caused authorities to respond with violence . In Spain , student demonstrations against Franco 's dictatorship led to clashes with police . A student demonstration in Mexico City ended in a storm of bullets on the night of October 2 , 1968 , an event known as the Tlatelolco massacre . Even in Pakistan , students took to the streets to protest changes in education policy , and on November 7 two college students died after police opened fire on a demonstration . The global reverberations from the French uprising of 1968 continued into 1969 and even into the 1970s
Tlatelolco massacre
Tlatelolco massacre
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