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- 1. Television Gets Real Jun 11, 2015
- The 70's introduces unique new TV shows like Saturday Night Live, and Monday Night Football.
- 2. United States vs. Nixon Jun 18, 2015
- Poorly executed burglary leads Richard Nixon to be the only president in U.S. history to resign.
- 3. Peace With Honor Jun 25, 2015
- America deals with the effects and impact on the nation as the Vietnam War comes to an end.
The Seventies is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on June 11, 2015. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman' studio Playtone, and serving as a follow-up to The Sixties, the 8-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1970s.
- Television Gets Real. 7 shows that mattered in the '70s. The Seventies: TIME's take on Television. The '70s: When TV finally woke up to reality.
- The United States vs. Nixon. Did the NSA start spying on Americans in the '70s? Nixon's speechwriter Ben Stein: Why did the media hate him so much?
- Peace with Honor. 5 ways Vietnam War changed America. Iconic photos of the Vietnam War. TIME's take on the end of the Vietnam War. The girl in the picture: Kim Phuc's journey from war to forgiveness.
- Crimes and Cults. Manson Family murders. The Jonestown massacre. The decade's most notorious killers. Why people fall in love with murderers.
The 1970s was a decade of political, economic, social and technological changes and conflicts around the world. Learn about the major wars, disasters, revolutions, oil crisis, disco music, and more that shaped the decade.
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- The Conservative Backlash. Many Americans, particularly working class and middle class whites, responded to the turbulence of the late 1960s–the urban riots, the antiwar protests, the alienating counterculture–by embracing a new kind of conservative populism.
- The Environmental Movement. In some ways, though, 1960s liberalism continued to flourish. For example, the crusade to protect the environment from all sorts of assaults–toxic industrial waste in places like Love Canal, New York; dangerous meltdowns at nuclear power plants such as the one at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania; highways through city neighborhoods–really took off during the 1970s.
- Fighting for Women’s Rights. During the 1970s, many groups of Americans continued to fight for expanded social and political rights. In 1972, after years of campaigning by feminists, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution, which reads: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
- The Antiwar Movement. Even though very few people continued to support the war in Indochina, President Nixon feared that a retreat would make the United States look weak.
Notable cultural events of the 1970s included the debut of the sports network ESPN and the release of the film classics The Godfather and Star Wars. Jaws made movie news by becoming the first summer blockbuster. The decade was also marked by significant endings, as when the Beatles disbanded or when the “King of Rock and Roll” died.
Learn about the major news events, technology, culture and trends of the 1970s in the United States and the world. Explore the topics such as the Watergate Scandal, the Vietnam War, the first jumbo-jet, the Apple Computer, the Space Invaders game and more.
Thursday May 28, 1981. Welcome to Ultimate70s.com, the most thorough site on the internet dedicated to those great years of the 1970s! Remember what it was like to live through that era — or learn more about it — by checking out the events from any of the 3,652 days of the decade.
