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Celebrating the Century: 1970-1979
Music: For What It’s Worth
Title: HARD TIMES
• The Vietnam War is still being fought. The President is Nixon. April 30, 1970-the president sends
troops into the country of Cambodia.
• At Kent State University in the state of Ohio , nine students are injured and 4 die.
• TV Show: All in the Family starring Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker.
• In 1973, the United States withdraws from Vietnam. The United States lost 57,000 soldiers in the war.
• April 30, 1975-the city of Saigon falls to the communist (becomes Ho Chi Mihn City)
• Nixon visited the country of China in 1972 and then stopped at Moscow in Russia.
• The SALT treaty is signed between the United States and Russia
Music: The Party’s Over
Title: I AM NOT A CROOK
• June 17, 1972-a break in takes place at the Watergate
Hotel. It is the sight of the Democratic
Headquarters (Woodward and Bernstein break the story in the newspaper)
• July 1974 (date) impeachment proceedings begin against Richard Nixon
• Aug. 9, 1974(date) Nixon becomes the first US president to resign.
• In 1976, the US celebrates its bicentennial
• With John Travolta as its star, Saturday Night Fever introduces the disco scene.
• Movies of the 70s: The Exorcist, Jaws, Star Wars, The Godfather, Rocky, True Grit, Dirty Harry and
Superman
Music: Give Peace a Chance
Title: Days of Terror
• Terrorist began to highjack airplanes and take hostages.
• At the Munich Olympics on Sept. 5, 1972, terrorist seized Israeli athletes. In all, 9 athletes die.
• Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals in the sport of swimming
• Uganda is led by Idi Amin. Hostages are held at the airport named Entebbe .
• The Egyptian leader,
Sadat, travels to Israel to discuss peace.
• Egyptian & Israeli leaders travel to the US and sign the Camp David Peace Accords.
• Three years later, Sadat is assassinated .
Music: I Am Woman
Title: Out of Darkness
• In 1973, the court case of
Roe vs. Wade Stated women had a constitutional right to have an
abortion
• Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in tennis
at the Astrodome in 1973
• Femanism name of the movement for women’s rights
• TV mini series: Roots written by Alex Haley (1977) follows Kunta Kentay in slavery
• Influential Black leaders: Dubois, Carver, Bunch, King, Marshall, Chisholm, Jackson, Powell
• Ali fights George Foreman using a tactic called Rope a Dope
Music: Hush Little Baby
Title: Along Way Home
• Aug. 16, 1977-Elvis Presley dies unexpectedly. Other rock stars who die in the 70s include Jim
Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimmy
Hendrix.
• Top singers from the 70s: Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin
• Jim Jones leads a religious group in the city of San Francisco. He took his followers to Guiana where
909 of them committed suicide.
• The country of Iran
goes from Shah to Ayatollah in leadership.
• Nov. 4 (date) The US Embassy in Tehran is seized and
60 US hostages are taken. Total days
the hostages held:444. Total American hostages freed:52
• Reagan becomes the president in 1980. The countries of Afghanistan and Nicargua are having
conflicts as he becomes president
Add: Barbara Jordan 1st Female African American Congressmen, Malcolm X led radical wing of Civil
Rights , Cesar Chavez led Civil Rights for hispanics