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Key Events in the 1970's

  • The Beatles Break Up

    The Beatles Break Up
    The ultra famous rock band The Beatles broke up in April 1970. This changed individuals like young people who loved The Beatles to turn to other genres of music and form a liking to a new band, perhaps changing dress code/sense of fashion.
  • U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam

    U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
    U.S troops were pullout of combat in Vietnam in March 1973. Racial groups like Orient and Western groups were able to start forgiveness to one another after the war had finished. Unity and cooperation were big ideas to come out of the war.
  • Star Wars Movie Released

    Star Wars Movie Released
    Star Wars: The New Hope was released in cinemas on the 25th of May 1977. The event formed a new social grouping known a Jedi, which has now become an actual religion thanks to the movie franchise. The idea of sci-fi was presented well within all the movies, making it one of the best and favourable movie genres of all time.
  • First Test Tube Baby Born

    First Test Tube Baby Born
    The first ever "test tube baby" was born on the 25th of July 1978. This event changed instituttions like hospitals which were now allow to do this conceiving practice. Social groupings like couples and homosexuals were also changed by this event, allowing them to have children, where as before were unable to.
  • John Paul II Becomes Pope

    John Paul II Becomes Pope
    John Paul II became the head of the Chatholic church on the 17th of October 1978. The social grouping of Chatholics underwent change and adjustment with the new Pope. Institution like the church also had to change and adapt to John Paul II as Pope.
  • Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain

    Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
    Margaret Thatcher became the first woman ever to be elected as Prime Minister of Great Britain on the 4th of May 1979. Individuals and social grouping of women all around the world felt impowered, equal and worthy when Thatcher became Prime Minister because she was the first woman to take great power of a nation, showing any one or woman could do it.