Decades 1970’s
Look up, know and cover the following terms:

Kent State
Nixon Resigns
Vietnam War ends
Saigon Falls 1975
Marvin Gaye -What’s Going On Album
Oil Crisis- Gas Lines
Disco
Films Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Jaws, Star Wars,
Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver
Watergate
President Ford pardons former President Nixon
Roots
The Bicentennial
Fashion- Hip huggers, platform shoes, bell bottoms, leisure suits,
long hair and side burns on men, afros and braids
T.V. – Variety Shows- (Tony Orlando and Dawn, Sonny and Cher)
Sesame Street, All in the Family and Saturday Night Live, Happy Days,
the Brady Bunch, Soul Train
President Jimmy Carter
Iran Hostage Crisis
Egypt/ Israel Peace Accord
ERA- Equal Rights Amendment
Desegregation of Schools/Forced Busing
Rise of Punk Rock
Fads-Mood Rings, Smiley Faces, Rubik’s Cube, Simon (the Game)
Patty Hearst kidnapping
Bob Marley and the rise of reggae
Soul Music -Delfonics, Stylistics, the O’Jays,
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
Roberta Flack, Minnie Ripperton
Modern Day Rap begins- Sugar Hill Gang
Dances- “the Bump”, “Latin Hustle”, “the Hustle”, “the Freak”
Popularity of Martial Arts- Kung Fu
Sports- 72 Olympics Hostage Crisis in Munich
Muhammad Ali
The Yankees- Reggie Jackson
The Pittsburgh Steelers- Lynn Swan
New York City goes bankrupt
New York City blackout of power 1977
Howard Cossell

A good movie to rent, to undestand the time period, Spike Lee's "Crooklyn"

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© Gina Coletti 2002

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