THE 1970'S

FASHION

• In this picture, you see hot pants, short shorts.
• Long pants were bell-bottoms and  hip-huggers. 
• People loved plaid.
• T-shirts became popular in the 1970s.
• Girls wore micro-mini skirts.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Big Movies: Star Wars and Jaws 
• Rocky, Grease, Saturday Night Fever
• TV shows: Brady Bunch, Sesame Street, MASH
• Comeback of horror, sci-fi, and natural disasters
• Dolby sound and Panavision

sports

• Pete Rose was a star on the Reds.
• Joe Namath was QB for NY Jets.
• Evel Knievel was a motorcycle stunt driver.
• Billie Jean King brought women to tennis.
• Secretariate won the Triple Crown. 

music

• Disco Fever! the Bee Gees!
• Soul Train!  
• Rock! The Who, ELO, Alice Cooper
• Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart
• Rolling Stones, Beatles, Elvis 

SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

• email, microprocessor (computer chip), floppy disk
• Apollo 17 and 18, Skylab
• Atari = game
• MRI, Test Tube Baby
• barcodes, video cassette recorders (VCR)

lifestyle

• Anti-War ideas (against Viet Nam)
• Women's Rights
• Desegregation of schools with busing
• Family vacations in RVs and station wagons
• pet rocks, Rubik's Cube, lava lamp  

world news

• Viet Nam War ended in 1975.
• Iran took American hostages.
• Viking spacecraft landed on Mars.
• Arabs stopped sending oil to US = oil embargo.
• International Year of the Woman

us news

• President Nixon resigned for his part in the Watergate Scandal. 
• He was trying to steal information.
• Roe V. Wade legalized abortion.
• Three Mile Island, NY = nuclear plant leak 
• Sears Tower in Chicago = tallest building in the world

Misc.

• The wildest fad was streaking nude in public places. 
• The first Earth Day was celebrated in April.
• There was an anti-war march.
• People liked mood rings and smiley face stickers.
• You can watch That 70's Show to learn more!

bibliography

• http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade70.html

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