1970 - 1971
By Anders, Jackson, Nilesh, Nathan, Alec, Adam, and
Garrett
Major Events (1970-1971)
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Beatles Break Up
Palestinian Terrorist Group Hijacks
Five Planes
Kent State Shooting
VCR's Introduced
London Bridge Brought To The U.S
Sports (1970)
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Tim Wood wins World Figure Skating
Championships
Kansas Chiefs win 23-7 over the
Minnesota Vikings (Super Bowl IV)
The US wins the Davis Cup over
Germany (5-0) in world tennis
New York Knicks win 4 games to 3
over Los Angeles Lakers
Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati
Reds 4 to 1 in World Series
Mark Spitz breaks his own world
record for the 200m butterfly with
a time of 2:05.4
Green Bay Packers Coach Vince
Lombardi dies (September 3rd); his
name then given to Super Bowl
trophy
Works Cited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_sports
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0801/nfl.10big
gest.superbowl.underdogs/content.1.html
http://www.spokeo.com/Wilt+Chamberlain+1/May+01+1970+Other+Pho
tos
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Sports (1971)
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US men's team wins the Ryder Cup
over Britain in team golf
Baltimore Colts win 16-13 over the
Dallas Cowboys (Super Bowl V)
US wins Davis Cup AGAIN over
Romania (3-2) in world tennis
This year was the first time in 16
years that Americans won both the
men's and women's title at the US
Open
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Men's: Stan Smith
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Women's: Billie Jean King
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali
and wins the World Heavyweight
Championship
Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 to 3 over
Baltimore Orioles in World Series
Milwaukee Bucks win 4 games to 0
Works Cited:
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http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20P
ages/Sports/pages-3/Muhammad-Aliwins-final-victory-over-Joe-FrazierScrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side2011-11-08.html
http://www.buymeposters.com/product
/415162/pittsburgh-pirates-1971world-series.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_s
ports
Historic People (1970-1971)
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Cesar Chavez
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Richard Nixon
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led movement to motivating women
to be accepted in athletics
Phyllis Schlafly
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president of the United States of
America
Billie Jean King
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used non-violent ways to help
migrant workers in California
receive wages and benefits they
deserved
led anti-feminist movement
Joseph Colombo
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led movement for Italian Civil
Rights
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was an ex-mafia boss
Jimmi Hendrix
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famous rock artist (eventually dies
Works Cited:
http://www.quia.com/jg/325184list.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean_Ki
ng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_nixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chaves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmi_Hendrix
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Family Life (1970-1971)
Married couples with their own children
made up 40.3% of households in 1970.
Family households maintained by women
rose more than 50%, from 3.6 million
in 1950 to 5.5 million in 1970.
Married couples with or without children
was about 44.7 million families in
.1970
Among all families with children, twoparent families accounted for 87.2% of
families in 1970.
In 1970 there were very few single-father
families.
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onylamberthalsemajr/photogallery/p
age2.html
http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/
1626/Family-Living-ArrangementsFEWER-TRADITIONALFAMILIES.html
http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1990/03/art1f
ull.pdf
http://www.llf.lib.ms.us/LLF/JHWillia
ms%20Archives/llfjhwilliams_series8.html
Protests (1970-1971)
A turning point was in on May 4, 1970, when four peaceful student demonstrators at
Kent State University in Ohio were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen during a
noon-time campus anti-war rally. Nine other students were injured by being shot by
Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4th.
The police opened fire at approximately 12:05 a.m., May 15, 1971, and continued firing
for more than 30 seconds. When the order to cease fire was given and the gunfire
ceased, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, and James Earl Green were dead. Twelve other
Jackson State students were struck by gunfire, including at least one who was
sitting in the dormitory lobby at the time of the shooting. Several students required
treatment for hysteria and injuries from shattered glass. Injured and carried to
University Hospital for treatment were Fonzie Coleman, Redd Wilson Jr. , Leroy
Kenter, Vernon Steve Weakley, Gloria Mayhorn, Patricia Ann Sanders , Willie
Woodard, Andrea Reese, Stella Spinks, Climmie Johnson, Tuwaine Davis and Lonzie
Thompson.
http://www.may41970.com/Jackson%20St
ate/jackson_state_may_1970.htm
http://www.bottlebrushpress.com/antivietna
mwarprotests.html
Advertisements (1970-1971)
Most of the ads in that time were in color
In 1971, they banned tobacco ads
There were a lot of car ads as there are today
most of the cleaning ads (bleach, tide) had women as the cleaning person
There were a lot of comic ads (marvel, superman, batman)
One of the most seen ads was the ad for a dodge challenger
One of the most popular ads of that time were women's rights ads
The most expensive ad then and still now, are super bowl ads
Books (1970-1971)
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One of the famous authors of between 1970-1971 was Judy Blume
One of the most famous books of that time was "The Late, Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey with more than
28 million copies sold
The winner for the nobel prize in literature for 1970 was Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and in 1971 it was
Pablo Neruda
The number one selling book was the Bible, as it has been for about 1,000 years with 6 billion copies sold
The Anarchist Cookbook by William powell was banned from schools for security reasons
Music (1970-1971)
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Work
Cited:
http://www
.electricad
olescence.
com/2012/
03/01/ahistory-ofpopularmusic-the1970s/
The Jackson 5 Released Their Hit Single "ABC"
Jimi Hendrix Dies Due To A Overdose On German Sleeping Pills
Much Of Music Released Related Is About Current Problems In The World
(Example: Vietnam)
Bands Like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin Were Gaining
Popularity
The Rolling Stones Released Their Classic Album "Sticky Fingers"
Television in 1970-71
As it is today television was a big part of our culture in 1970 and
1971. Some things that were happening in 1970 on
television were:
•Marcus Welby, M.D. Was the highest-rated show for the year,
•NFL Monday Night Football premiered on ABC,
•Barefoot in the Park premiered on ABS as well but only lasted
through 71,
•The show Get Smart ended on May 15 and Spider-Man ended
on June 14,
•And many famous actors of today were born in 1970; Will
Arnett who currently plays Chris from Up All Night, Tina Fey
who is an actor and former SNL star, and many more.
Some things that were happening in 1971 were:
•The last cigarette advertisement occurred during the evening
broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on
NBC,
•Soul Train premiered,
•The Jackson 5ive premiered,
•The Johnny Cash Show and The Beverly Hillbillies ended,
•And many famous actors of today were born in 1971; Johnny
Knoxville who starred in Loiter Squad as himself, and many
more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_television
World/National Events (1970-1971)
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Apollo 15 lands on the moon and uses the Lunar Rover vehicle for the first time.
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War between India and Pakistan begins.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, widening the war in
Vietnam. In protest, millions march across the U.S. University campuses are shut
down by student strikes. Four protestors at Kent State University in Ohio are
killed by National Guard troops.
U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing students may be ordered to
achieve racial desegregation of schools.
Work Cited:
http://www.livinghistory
farm.org/farminginthe7
0s/worldevents_01.htm
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Civil Rights in 1970-71
Civil Rights are a huge part of our history.
So naturally something having to do
with Civil Rights happened in 1970
and or 1970. In 1970 The film
Watermelon Man was released the
film is a comedy about a white male
who wakes up one morning and
discovers his skin is now black. Also
the first Blaxploitation films were
released. Blaxploitation films were
specifically made for an African
American audience, but soon enough
it broadened to ethnic and crossracial lines. In 1971 the Supreme
court in Swann v. CharlotteMechlenburg Board of Education
integrated busses on the grounds
that busing is a legitimate means for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Afric
anAmerican_Civil_Rights_Movement#1970.E2.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swann_v._Charlot
te-Mecklenburg_Board_of_Education
1970-1971 Fashion
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Mini Skirts
Bell Bottom Pants
Platform Shoes
Assassinations in 1970
Pierre Laporte
• Canadian Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec
• kidnapped October 10 1970 by the FLQ - a paramilitary group
• held hostage during anti-government protest
• found dead by strangulation 7 days later, in the trunk of
sovereign-terrorist Paul Rose's car.
René Schneider
• Commander-in-Chief of Chilean Army
• kept president Salvador Allende in constant control
• CIA supplied a group Chilean officers with weapons to
assassinate
• two previous assassination attempts on Schneider failed
• on October 12, 1970 Schneider was ambushed in his car,
and was shot several times from close range and died
three days later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Schneider
Assassinations in 1970 (Continued)
Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
• Chilean politician
• blamed for the Massacre of Puerto Montt
• 10 squatters were killed on March 9, 1969
• killed in revenge on June 8, 1971 while driving with
his daughter
• one of the attackers shot him 12 times with a
machinegun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_P%C3%A9rez_Zujovic
Assassinations in 1971
Hardan al-Tikriti
• senior Iraqi Air Force member, politician and ambassador
• after overthrowing previous President Qasim, he became the
Defense Minister and Premier Deputy
• Saddam Hussein partnered with then-president al-Bakr, who used
Hussein for popularity
• Hussein wanted more power, and knew he could by controlling
the military,which meant replacing al-Tikriti
• al-Tikriti saw this coming and had Hussein sent away on a plane,
but Hussein managed to return a week later with vengeance
• using then-president al-Bakr, Hussein had al-Tikriti assassinated
by telling telling president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr that Hardan
was after the president's seat
• using al-Bakr as a puppet, Hussein had al-Tikriti stripped of his
position and sent to lower-class jobs (V.P., then ambassador of Algeria, then Sweden)
• On March 30th 1971, al-Tikriti was assassinated in Kuwait by
orders of Saddam Hussein
Assassinations in 1970-71
Krim Belkacem
• Algerian revolutionary, politician and fighter
• preferred federalist views rather than the president's central
policies
• accused of an assassination attempt on the president and
was sentenced to death
• found assassinated in a hotel room in Frankfurt, West
Germany
Wasfi al-Tal
• Prime Minister of Jordan for 3 separate terms
• Assassinated by the Palestine Liberation Movement
• the PLO is aimed at overthrowing the oppressive gov.
• al-Tal was assassinated on November 28, 1971
• killed in revenge for the assassination of Abu Ali Iyad,
who fought against King Hussein
• One of the assassins was one of Abu Ali Iyad's vengeful soldiers
• al-Tal's last words were, "They've killed me. Murderers, they
believe only in fire and destruction."
Vietnam War in 1970
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Vietnamese have virtually taken over the fighting war
At the start of 1970, American troops on the border areas of Vietnam were moved to the coast
and interior
too much killing took place on border areas
this was one of the reasons why casualties in 1970 were less than half of 1960's totals
President Richard M. Nixon vowed to bring home more troops in 1970
President Richard M. Nixon: “I am tonight announcing plans for the withdrawal of an additional
150,000 American troops to be completed during the spring of next year. This will bring a total
reduction of 265,500 men in our armed forces in Vietnam below the level that existed when we
took office 15 months ago.”
13 military operations conducted in South Vietnam called the
Cambodian Campaign
Majority of soldiers smoked Marijuana while serving in
Vietnam to relieve boredom and stress
Vietnam War in 1971
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http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Eventsof-1970/Vietnamization/12303235577467-4/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
top secret Pentagon Papers are leaked to the
New York Times containing top secret information
on U.S. involvement
Operation Lam Son 719 is launched on February
8th 1971, aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh trail in
Laos
Australia and New Zealand withdrew their soldiers
from Vietnam
on March 5th, 1971 U.S. the 5th Special Forces
Group, the first American unit deployed to South
Vietnam, is sent home
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