The 70's - final project

By vickymavreas

  • Occupational safety and health act

    Occupational safety and health act
    Safety
    employers provide employees with an environment free from recognized hazards, such as exposure to toxic chemicals, excessive noise levels, mechanical dangers, heat or cold stress, or unsanitary conditions.

  • EPA founded

    EPA founded
    Save The World
    protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress

  • Satchel Paige

    Satchel Paige
    History of Satchel Paige
    Satchel Paige was the first negro league player to be voted in the baseball hall of fame

  • China invites U.S

    China invites U.S
    Table Tennis competetive sport
    China Invites President Nixon to play table tennis and established full diplomatic relations

  • U.S. Airlines inspections

    U.S. Airlines inspections
    Reuired Inspections
    U.S. Airlines begin mandatory inspections of passengers and baggage

  • Nixon's Foreign Policy

    Nixon's Foreign Policy
    Foreign Policy
    Nixon visited China and opened the communist nation to American trade and opened diplomatic relations, which regaurds making peace.

  • Peace Parris Accords

    Peace Parris Accords
    paris peace accords
    Established to make peace with Vietnam. Ended the Vietnam war.

  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    War Powers Act
    a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.

  • Arab Oil Embargo

    Arab Oil Embargo
    oil embargo
    The crisis had a large impact on global relations. By the end of the embargo in March 1974 the price of oil had risen from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12

  • holdijng private gold in us restrictions removed

    holdijng private gold in us restrictions removed
    gold
    making it able for US to trade with other countries

  • Helsinki Accords

    Helsinki Accords
    helsinki accords
    The United States along with thirty five other nations signed an agreement guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  • bill gates founds microsoft

    bill gates founds microsoft
    bill gates interview
    the start of modern technology

  • United States Naval Academy

    United States Naval Academy
    naval academy
    The first class taught on women was taught at United States Naval Academy, a lead in America bringing up new ideas,

  • copy rights act

    copy rights act
    copy rights
    make it illegal for people to steal others work
    the basic rights of copyright holders

  • Voyager Program

    Voyager Program
    voyager
    Two voyagers were sent out, designed to study planets Jupiter and Saturn.

  • MLK Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

    MLK Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
    i had a dream
    All of the efforts Martin Luther King Jr. made, like his I Had A Dream speech at the march in Washington D.C., Congress was able to pass the landmark Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, so they awarded him with this incredible award. "He made our nation stronger because he made it better"

  • WAC Abolished

    WAC Abolished
    WAC
    Women's Army Corps (WAC) was abolished, letting women enter the regular army with men.

  • humphrey hawkins full employment act

    humphrey hawkins full employment act
    full employment
    main purpose was to have stable employment

  • Diplomatic relations w/ china

    Diplomatic relations w/ china
    diplomatic relations
    formed political, economic and military alliances with China

  • Salvadoran Civil War

    Salvadoran Civil War
    war
    The Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The United States contributed to the conflict by providing large amounts of military aid to the government of El Salvador