1970’s
nikaEach student will receive a topic specific to the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. There will be a
presentation quiz and some of the items were selected because they will be on the final exam.
Each student will present their assigned topic in two minutes addressing the following
questions:
Question 1: What makes your event crucial or important to the decade?
Question 2: How did the government and society respond to the assigned topic?
Visual aids are not needed unless cited next to topic. PowerPoint presentations are not needed
but feel free to locate images using a simple Google search. We did these presentations during
the beginning of the year when we started imperialism.
25 points______Question 1 addressed
25 points______Question 2 addressed
25 points______Provides accurate historic information about the topic
25 points______Prepared (Does not use note cards, does not hesitate or uses umms). At the
end of your presentation I should be able to gauge if you prepared for your presentation.
______Not interrupting or texting during someone else’s presentation. If so and want points
must answer questions about that student’s presentation to demonstrate you were in fact
listening.
1. Watergate, Ford Presidency and Republican Party problems that made it easier for Carter
2. Three-Mile Island and Carter’s decision to address the environment
3. Z-Boys, water restrictions and the skateboard revolution
4. OPEC and the oil shortages of the 70’s
5. The 1970’s economy and inflation
6. Iran hostage Crisis and Khomeini the “crisis of confidence”
7. SALT II and Détente
8. Apollo 11
9. Camp David Accords
10. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
11. Roe vs. Wade
Topics 1-10 should address how the event impacted
12. Busing in Boston 1976
the US President at that time
13. Creation of the C.I.A
14. Harvey Milk and the Brigg Initiative
15. Poverty during the 1970’s (inflation)
16. Disco and Studio 54
17. Consumerism during the 1970’s vs. consumerism of the 1920’s (Create a chart)
18. Pong, Atari 2600 and the death of video arcade rooms
19. CB radios
20. Cars during the 1970’s-Or how Japan started to beat out Detroit (US auto makers)
21. Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
22. TV shows during the 1970’s such as All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show and Brady Bunch
23. Cocaine during the 1970’s
24. 1970 movies such as Saturday Night Fever, Godfather and Rocky
25. Movies and shows during the 1970’s that were about life during the 1950 and 1960’s (compare to the
golden age and generation gap).
26. Labor unions during the 1970’s
27. How did the 1970’s deal with the loss in Vietnam?
28. Locate a few summaries about the 1970’s. What are historians and people saying about this decade?
29. Internet technology during the 1970’s
30. Palestinians and plane hijacking
31. Floppy disc
1980’s
Each student will receive a topic specific to the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. There will be a
presentation quiz and some of the items were selected because they will be on the final exam.
Each student will present their assigned topic in two minutes addressing the following
questions:
Question 1: What makes your event crucial or important to the decade?
Question 2: How did the government and society respond to the assigned topic?
Visual aids are not needed unless cited next to topic. PowerPoint presentations are not needed
but feel free to locate images using a simple Google search. We did these presentations during
the beginning of the year when we started imperialism.
25 points______Question 1 addressed
25 points______Question 2 addressed
25 points______Provides accurate historic information about the topic
25 points______Prepared (Does not use note cards, does not hesitate or uses umms). At the
end of your presentation I should be able to gauge if you prepared for your presentation.
______Not interrupting or texting during someone else’s presentation. If so and want points
must answer questions about that student’s presentation to demonstrate you were in fact
listening.
1. Failure of Carter Administration and the 1980 Election
2. Conservative Movement vs. Liberal Movement
3. Reagan’s critique of the liberal agenda and the rise of the current Republican golden age
4. Reganomics, supply side economics vs. The New Deal
5. 1981-1982 recession-Poverty in America during the start of the 80’s
6. The “evil empire,” Glasnost and Perestroika
7. Military spending under Reagan in comparison to the Military Industrial Complex
8. Iran Contra Affair and Oliver North
9. Iran Iraq War or the First Persian Gulf War
10. 1983 Beirut attack
11. The decline of the Soviet Union-SDI and other reasons
12. Berlin Wall crumbles and Tiananmen Square’s Tank Man
13. Revolutions in Romania and Poland
14. Challenger explosion and Miracle on Ice at the Olympics
15. 1980 video games (Atari, Coleco Vision and Intelivision). Also how Tetris merged Russua, Japan and
the USA.
16. Cell phones and beepers (“the brick”)
17. Atari 800, Commodore 64 and home computers
18. Crack and cocaine of the 1970’s and poverty
19. Aids and the gay cancer
20. Failures of the Reagan Administration
21. Reagan and the Air Traffic Controller Union
22. 1980’s music and the birth of rap music out of NYC poverty (Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Run D.M.C)
23. Movies of the 1980’s (Breakfast Club, Wall Street and Back to the Future)
24. TV shows of the 1980’s (Cosby Show, Three’s Company Dynasty and who shot J.R. on Dynasty)
25. Credit spending increases, shopping at malls (Sherman Oaks) and Valley Girls
26. 1980’s toys and Saturday morning cartoons and the birth of cable with MTV
27. Locate a few summaries about the 1980’s. What are historians and people saying about this decade?
The “all about me” time in America and “bigger is better.”
28. George Bush Election and “no new taxes”
29. Computer technology during the 1980’s
30. Affirmative Action
1990’s
Each student will receive a topic specific to the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. There will be a
presentation quiz and some of the items were selected because they will be on the final exam.
Each student will present their assigned topic in two minutes addressing the following
questions:
Question 1: What makes your event crucial or important to the decade?
Question 2: How did the government and society respond to the assigned topic?
Visual aids are not needed unless cited next to topic. PowerPoint presentations are not needed
but feel free to locate images using a simple Google search. We did these presentations during
the beginning of the year when we started imperialism.
25 points______Question 1 addressed
25 points______Question 2 addressed
25 points______Provides accurate historic information about the topic
25 points______Prepared (Does not use note cards, does not hesitate or uses umms). At the
end of your presentation I should be able to gauge if you prepared for your presentation.
______Not interrupting or texting during someone else’s presentation. If so and want points
must answer questions about that student’s presentation to demonstrate you were in fact
listening.
1. Collapse of Soviet Union
2. 1994 Contract with America
3. NAFTA
4. United States and Somalia
5. Clinton impeachment
6. 2000 Disputed Election
7. United States and Rwandan Genocide
8. Desert Storm
9. Hussein burns Kuwait oil reserves
10. Hilary Clinton and health care
11. Clinton and Gore Election Campaign
12. Dot-Com bubble
13. Deficit reduction 1990s
14. Causes for economic increase
15. Welfare reform under Clinton
16. O.J. Trial
17. Waco Texas
18. Lorena Bobbit
19. Hong Kong back to China
20. Moly the cloned sheep
21. Panama Canal back to Panama
22. Mathew Shepard
23. Movies of the 90’s Titanic and Blair Witch Project
24. Artists of the 90’s Mariah Carey, Madonna and Celine Dion
25. Unabomber
26. TV Shows-Seinfeld, Fresh Prince and Ellen
27. Bin Laden 1998 Fatwah
28. 1990 Immigration pull factors
29. Katrina
30. What is being said about the 1990s?