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Economic Stabilization Act of 1970
ESAlaw that authorized the President to stabilize prices, rents, wages, salaries, interest rates, dividends and similar transfers -
Occupational Safety and Health Act
OHSensures that employers provide workers with an environment that is safe -
Swann vs. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education
SwannSwann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1970) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. After a first trial going to the Board of Education, the Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the imbalance resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school -
26th Amendment
26 prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age. -
Watergate Scandal
WatergateBreak-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington DC, Nixon's administration tried to cover up its involovement. Changed the publics view on the political figures in the United States. -
Munich Olympics Attack
MunichThe Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany on 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, who were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September. -
Paris Peace Accords
PeaceThe Paris Peace Accords of 1973 intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War, ended direct U.S. military involvement, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam -
1st Cell Phone Call Made
Cellphone Martin Cooper placed the call on April 3, 1973, while general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car phones. That first call was placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs . -
Arab Oil Embargo
OilOAPEC initiated the embargo in response to US involvement in the Oct 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War. Six days after Egypt and Syria launched the surprise military campaign against Israel in order to regain Arab territories lost to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, the United States chose to re-supply Israel with arms. OAPEC decided to retaliate, announcing an oil embargo against Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. -
Recession
being a stagflation, where high unemployment coincided with high inflation. The period was also described as one of "malaise" (ill-ease; compare "depression"). -
United States vs. Nixon
NixonIt resulted in a unanimous 8-0 ruling against President Richard Nixon and was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal. It is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any US president. -
Gerald Ford
Ford When he became president upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the first and to date only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected by the Electoral College. -
US leaves Vietnam
VietnamUnited States officialy ended the war in Vietnam after Paris Peace Accord in 1973 that's when last troops pulled out from Vietnam. Technically the war was over when the Paris Peace Accords were signed. -
Apollo
Apollo the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft. Its primary purpose was as a symbol of the policy of détente that the two superpowers were pursuing at the time, and marked the end of the Space Race between them that began in 1957. -
Operation Anvil
nevadaOperation Anvil was a series of 21 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1975-1976 at the Nevada Test Site -
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1st Jay Leno Appearance on Tonight Show
LenoLeno made his first appearance on The Tonight Show on March 2, 1977. -
1st Flight of Space Shuttle
Shuttle First free flight of Space Shuttle; first non-captive flight of Enterprise -
Panama Canal Treaty
Panama On March 16 the Senate passed the Neutrality Treaty and on April 18, 1978, it approved a resolution of ratification of the Canal Treaty 68 to 32. -
Human Rights Declaration
rightsThe American Convention on Human Rights, also known as the Pact of San José, is an international human rights instrument. It was adopted by many countries in the Western Hemisphere San José, Costa Rica, on 22 November 1969. It came into force after the eleventh instrument of ratification (that of Grenada) was deposited on 18 July 1978. -
SALT II Treaty
SALTDuring a summit meeting in Vienna, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II agreement dealing with limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons. The treaty, which never formally went into effect, proved to be one of the most controversial U.S.-Soviet agreements of the Cold War. -
Gay Rights March in DC
rightsThe National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large Political Rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on Sunday October 14, 1979. The first such march on Washington, it drew upwards of 125,000 Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexual and Transgender People and Straight Allies to demand Equal Civil Rights and urge the passage of Protective Civil Rights Legislation. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
HostageDiplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail.
