1970s timline

  • Earth Day

    Earth Day

    The hippies wanted to save the world and keep it clean
  • Kent state

    Kent state

    National gaurd fired into a crowd of protesters killing 4 and injuring 9 Kent state students
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    1970s

  • Watergate

    Watergate

    A major political scandalin the United States
  • Munich Games

    Munich Games

    A terrorist killed 2 olympic atheletes, and took 9 hostages
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    The soldiers were removed from vietnam and the war ended
  • Nixon Resigns

    Nixon Resigns

    Nixon decided to resign after he figured that he was not strong enough to run the congress
  • Gerald Ford assanations

    Gerald Ford assanations

    Lynette Fromme attempted to kill Gerald ford, she was mad because she wanted gerald ford to halt to envirmental pollution
  • Roots

    Roots

    A tv show that showed the horrors of the slave ships
  • Star wars

    Star wars

    The legendary star wars released for the first time and was a very big movie
  • Elvis

    Elvis

    Elvis was found dead due to an overdose on drugs, because his doctor prescribed him drugs to pump him up on stage and he overdosed on them
  • John Paul ll

    John Paul ll

    He just reigned as the pope, and 33 days later he suddenly died on the balcony
  • 3 mile island

    3 mile island

    A nuclear reactor blew up on and it was rated a 5 out of 7 explosion costing about 1 million dollars in clean up
  • Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret thatcher was the first woman prime minister in Britain, she was called the Iron Lady
  • Iran hostages

    Iran hostages

    A group of Iranian students took over the U.S emmbassy in Tehran, and they held everyone in there hostage