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Feminist Movement
During the Feminist Movement of 1970 they focused not only on womens workplace, but laws regarding women. By the end of the 70's the Feminist Movement established rape crisis centers, health clinics, and women's shelters. These strong women strived for their daughters to have the same opportunity as their sons. -
Ted Bundy
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Cold War
The Cold War was a war between the U.S and the USSR. The reason they call it the cold war was because they never really got into a real fight. The closest the U.S. got to fight the USSR was in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The reason the cold war started was because the USSR and the U.S. wanted to see who was more powerful. It started during WW2 on Aug. 6 1945 after Truman ordered the drop of the atomic bomb. -
Disney World Opened
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Sanford & Son TV Show
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Watergate
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Olympic Games violence
AKA the Munich Massacre happened during the Olympic Games in Germany. At the time German leader, Hitler, was still very much motivated to gain control. He wanted to use the games to show the "superiorty" of his race on a worlds scale. Besides the Holocaust going on, the world was facing many raging wars and dissagreements. With only a few days left in the games, Hitler sent his men to an apartment full of Israeli athletes. 2 were killed and 9 were held hostage. Germans fled to airports to kill. -
Roe vs. Wade
On January 22nd, 1973, Roe, a pregnant woman, argued between her doctor, Wade, to get an abortion. She asked for an abortion in the early days of pregnancy to avoid having a child. So, she took the argument to court against the doctor. Later after the argument was settled, she had an abortion and the US made it legalized in the US to have abortions legally. -
Sears Tower
The tallest skyscraper in the world at the time. It was located in Chicago. It's most famous part was the "skydeck" where you could go and look over the city from all directions. -
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SNL
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Vietnam War end
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Charlie's Angels
The Charlie's Angels was a popular tv show in the 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjJohZfYiM -
Voyager Space Mission
NASA developed a mission called Voyager to make a "grand tour" of Jupiter and Saturn, and possibly Uranus and Neptune if everything went well. The agency planned to launch a pair of unmanned spacecraft on different places to study the planets from multiple angles. Each spacecraft contains about 65,000 individual parts. When they were launched in 1977, the scientists estimated that they would last about 5 years. They both have outlived that projection by 30 years, which is extremely astonishing -
Elvis Pressley Died
Elvis Pressley was found dead on his bathroom floor in 1977. After having an autopsy of his body, the results showed what really killed him. Besides Pressley fighting arthritis, migraines, insomnia, and glaucoma, they found a lot of pills in his body. They found valium, methaqualone, and ethinamat which are all sleeping pills. They also found demerol which a painkiller, and codeine. It's clear now the sleeping pills are what Pressley died from! -
Grease
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Kent State Shooting
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White Night of Mass Death
Jim Jones led a group of followers to Guyana, for a meeting. He poisoned everybody that attended, and over 900 Americans died. -
Leak at Pennsylvania nuclear plant
In Middletown, Pennsylvania, there was a leak of radiation from a nuclear plant that had been only three months old. The cause of the leak is unknown. The NRC said that it may have been caused by faulty filters in the plant. The leak didn't harm anybody, nor workers or citizens. It was still considered to be one of the worst leaks from an American nuclear plant to that day. -
Muhammed Ali is crowned "Sportsman of the Century"
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Canadian Caper
The hostage situation began when about 600 student protesters took the U.S Embassy in Tehran by storm. The protestorts were angry with the U.S for allowing Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, into the United States for cancer treatments. The frustrated students took more than 70 U.S Embassy workers hostage, and demanded that the shah may be returned to the Iranian government to face justice. During the situation, six Americans fled to the Canadian Embassy and hid there for three months.
