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1970’sBy:

Jonathan Adelino, Allen Link,

Ruth Castillo, &

Brianna Lincks

Facts About the 1970’s

In the United States’s1970’s the Population was 204,879,000. The number of unemployed in 1970 was 4,088,000. National Debt was $382 billion. Average salary was around $7,564. In the 1970’s the life expectancy for the Males was 67.1 and the life expectancy for the Females was 74.8. A movie ticket cost about $1.50. A quart of milk cost 33 cents and a loaf of bread cost about 24 cents.

Important people of the 1970’s

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Richard Milhous Nixon was the United States 37th president from 1969-to-1974. Richard Nixon was the president to stop the war with Vietnam. He was also the president behind the whole Watergate scandal. He lost all of America’s trust from the scandal. So in Nixon‘s second term as our United States president about half way through he resigned the office to Gerald Ford.

Richard M. Nixon

Arthur was the first black male to ever win a Wimbledon Competition. He won three Grand Slam titles, ranking him among the best tennis players from the United States. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in May 1976. In September 1970 Ashe turned professional by signing a five-year contract with Lamar Hunt 's World Championship Tennis. He played for a few more years, but after being slowed by heart surgery in 1979, he retired.

Arthur Ashe

Gerald Ford was the thirty eighth president serving from 1974 to 1977 . He also served as the vice president from 1973 to 1974. Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Milhous Nixon which had saved our nation from many years of messy problems. Ford made the choice of ordering a rescue team that came and saved the nearly 40 American sailors that had been captured

during the First Indochina war. Ford is also known to have ended the Vietnam War with the help of Richard Nixon.

Gerald Ford

John Mitchell was very important because he broke many racial barriers. He was the first African American to

become co-captain and then become the assistant coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide . John also became the first black defensive coordinator in the Southern Conference.

John Mitchell

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was a big influence in the start of rock music. His music ranged from moving love songs to songs with deeper meanings. Dylan made a comeback in 1974 with the album "Blood on the Tracks", which is thought to be his best album although "Desire" (1975 album) is his bestseller.

Elvis Presley

Elvis was a world wide legend. In 1970 he was discovered and instantly attracted hundreds of fans with his deep smooth voice. Elvis was the first person allowed to move their hips on national television. He also recorded his first record for Sun Records in the 1970’s.

John Paul Getty

John had an oil company with his father in 1930, but took over when his dad died. Getty had one of the biggest oil companies in the United States. When John died in 1976 he was the richest man in America.

Mark Spitz

His powerful swimming career launched him into fame and attracted fans world-wide. During his career, Mark’s remarkable abilities set him apart from the competition. He was a world champion swimmer, who just happened to win 7 gold medals in 1972 summer Olympics for America.

Muhammad Ali

“Float like a butter fly and sting like a bee”, was a famous quote said by Muhammad Ali himself. In Boxing he changed the way that people saw, practiced and fought in that sport. He took what was considered to be a skittish way of fighting, being evasive, and made it his own personal art form. That’s why Bruce Lee quoted him and took from his methods.

Patty Hearst Patty Hearst was a wealthy

young girl, when she was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) a left-wing American terrorist group founded in 1973. The kidnapping itself fascinated Americans, but Hearst's case grew even stranger when she joined the SLA during her captivity, taking the name Tania and denouncing her former life.

Events of the 1970’s• Apollo 13 launch 1970• Marshall Air Plain Crash

1970• Hurricane Leila 1970• Kent State shooting

1970• Nixon’s Foreign Policy

in 1972

• Oil Spill 1973• The Vietnam war

ended in 1973• 1974 president Richard

M. Nixon resigned as president

• Alaska pipeline 1977• New York Blackout

1977

Nixon’s Foreign PolicyNixon opened the

communist nation to American trade and reopened diplomatic relations in 1972. This isolated the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviets began to bargain with the United States. Both sides entered into a new era of agreement and peaceful coexistence.

Oil Spill A tanker spewed 20,000 gallons of heavy crude into Tampa Bay on a Friday the 13th in 1979. At the time, it was the largest oil spill ever in Florida, causing $10-million in damage. People began talking about energy conservation

The Vietnam War ended

The Paris Peace Accords ending the conflict were signed January 27, 1973. The terms of the accords called for a complete ceasefire in South Vietnam, allowed North Vietnamese forces to retain the territory they had captured, released US prisoners of war, and called for both sides to find a political solution to the conflict.

Music & Fashion

Music of the 1970’s

In the 1970’s there was disco, soul, southern rock, and soft rock. Arena rock became popular with bands like Boston. Bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath introduced us to heavy metal music. The Allman Brothers gave us our first taste of southern rock. Towards the end of the 70s, new wave emerged, with bands such as Devo and The Cars, but disco is what most people associate most commonly with the 1970s.

Fashion of the 1970’sMen wore bell-bottom

pants, platform shoes and brightly colored patches of clothing. Leisure suits became the rage for men. Women wore just about everything from hot pants to ultra-short mini-skirts to ankle-length flowing dresses. The most popular hairstyle for women was mimicked after Farrah Fawcett and was long, flowing and “feathered.” Thanks to the Jackson Five, the afro was immensely popular for both African American men and women.

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