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Earth Day
The hippies wanted to save the world and keep it clean -
Kent state
National gaurd fired into a crowd of protesters killing 4 and injuring 9 Kent state students -
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1970s
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Watergate
A major political scandalin the United States -
Munich Games
A terrorist killed 2 olympic atheletes, and took 9 hostages -
Vietnam
The soldiers were removed from vietnam and the war ended -
Nixon Resigns
Nixon decided to resign after he figured that he was not strong enough to run the congress -
Gerald Ford assanations
Lynette Fromme attempted to kill Gerald ford, she was mad because she wanted gerald ford to halt to envirmental pollution -
Roots
A tv show that showed the horrors of the slave ships -
Star wars
The legendary star wars released for the first time and was a very big movie -
Elvis
Elvis was found dead due to an overdose on drugs, because his doctor prescribed him drugs to pump him up on stage and he overdosed on them -
John Paul ll
He just reigned as the pope, and 33 days later he suddenly died on the balcony -
3 mile island
A nuclear reactor blew up on and it was rated a 5 out of 7 explosion costing about 1 million dollars in clean up -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret thatcher was the first woman prime minister in Britain, she was called the Iron Lady -
Iran hostages
A group of Iranian students took over the U.S emmbassy in Tehran, and they held everyone in there hostage
