1970s
Mao Zedong
1st Chairman of the
Communist Party of China
1945-1976
-Leninist/Stalinist way of
thinking
-Great Leap Forward killed
30 million+ Chinese by
starving them to death
Richard Nixon /
Watergate
37th US President (1969-74)
-Passed the Equal Rights
Amendment.
-Started process to end Cold
War (Visiting Beijing and
Moscow 1972)
-Achieved cooperative
program
in space with Soviets.
Watergate led towards Nixon's resignation in
1974. The event is named after the Watergate
complex, where Nixon's administration was
accused for breaking into the Democratic
National Committee headquarters to sabotage
the democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH
nmriyXYeg
Roe v Wade
1973 Supreme Court Case
-Abortion is legal if it is during the first trimester
of pregnancy.
-Decision gave states rights to intervene during
2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
For Abortion
Against Abortion
-Mothers life
-The right for the fetus
to live
-Child with disability
-Women's rights to their -Religious beliefs
bodies
Other Factors to Consider
-Womens age
-Husband/Parental consent
-Countries public assistance
Jimmy Carter
US President (#39)
1977-81
-Encouraged energy conservation and solar
panels.
-Camp David Accords, Egypt-Israel treaty
-Championed human rights throughout the
world.
-Unsuccessful overall
Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=1SI8RF6wDE
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=dc8Cb2
wi8eM
Cambodian Genocide: The Khmer
rouge murdered 25% of the nation
-Wanted a classless society
-Executed anyone with education,
even people with glasses.
-Recruited children to spy on adults
-2 million deaths
First Star Wars released 1977
-Total box office record (2013)
$4,382,359,868
-Awards
25 Academy
Awards total
Ayatollah Khomeini / Iranian Revolution
Ayatollah Khomeini took over Iran in 1979.
The leader then was the Shah, however a
group of religious leaders led by Khomeini
had dislodged him from his power.
-Iran become a theocracy
-A switch from pro-western to anti-western
-30,000-60,000 killed
1980s
Ronald
Reagan
40th US President (1981-89)
Former governor of California and actor
-Speaking to Gorbachev into bringing down the
Berlin wall.
-Reagonomics: tax cuts and free economy
-Iran-Contra affair
Falkland Islands
Falklands War
Dispute between the British and the Argentinians
led towards a war over the small territory of the
Falkland Islands (1982).
-1000 deaths
-British victory
-Argentina's military government lost support
following the war, the opposite occurred in Britain
where the victory bolstered support for Margaret
Thatcher's
Margaret Thatcher
Britain's first female prime
minister (79-90)
-Conservative party
-Falklands War
-Ronald Reagan
- “Iron Lady”
- Three terms in office
AIDS epidemic
1981 the official beginning of the AIDS
epidemic
1983 recommended to avoid AIDS when having
blood transfusion or sexual contact
21:30
36:45
1988 Worlds AIDS day declared by WHO
1994 Significant advances in reducing AID’s, 70%
reduction in transmission in the USA
1995 New highly active antiretroviral therapy
2000’s US government continues to provide billions
of dollars in AID’s research and awareness.
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=XpsaMPHJjM4
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=okMdC9YqrE
Michael Jackson
Born 1958, known as the King of Pop
-13 Grammy Awards
-750 million albums sold
-$120 million income in 1989 alone
-$60 million donated to famine relief in Africa
-Controversy over child molestation
-Controversy over his plastic surgery and skin color.
http://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=Z
i_XLOBDo_Y
Bill Jean
http://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=
sOnqjkJTMaA
Thriller
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/28/michael.
jackson.black.community/index.html
Jackson – Racial Barriers
“Jackson continued as a pioneer in the black
culture when he broke barriers by appearing
on MTV, and by breaking sales records with the
1982 album, "Thriller.“
Famine in Ethiopia
1 million+ deaths
Magnitude of the famine spread towards worldwide media coverage, and support.
-Live Aid raised money to help those who were
starving in Ethiopia.
-Much of the aid never made it to the people
(Local governments stealing aid, support
NGOs/NPOs failing to follow through) made
people question the methods of how people from
the outside can help.
Chernobyl Disaster
1986, a nuclear power plant explodes
-amount of radiation released was 30-40 times
the radiation released from Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
-100,000’s focused to relocate
-Symbolic of the collapsing Soviet Union
-Questioned the safety of nuclear power plants
Fall of the Berlin Wall
• November 9, 1989, East Germany announced that
the borders between East and West Germany will
be opened, and that the wall will come down.
• After the Berlin Wall came down, West and East
Germany united into a single Germany in 1990.
Tiananmen Square
Massacre
• Student led protests against the Chinese
government in Beijing.
• Over 2000 deaths of University students
• The Chinese government prohibits its people
from discussing the event in China
• At the height of the protests a million people
assembled at the square.
Tank Man
Also known as the Unknown Rebel is an
anonymous man who stood in front of Chinese
tanks when part of the Tiananmen Square
protests.
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=Nnmnq5
nFcZw
T. Square mini
documentary