By; Karen Perez

1st Period

Decades Project

• Economics • Politics • Society & Culture • Environment

70’s To 80’s

The 70’s was the decade when the hippies waned. When the opposition to Vietnam was in its top and when industrialized countries experienced economic recession. When the economics continued on a steady progress. & last but not least, when women had their spotlight on society.

The 70’s

Wordle

The 1970’s was when the Vietnam War ended. For instance, there wasn’t really a concrete event of war conflict. But, the cold war was still in.

War Conflict

Timeline

HeadLine

The 1970s were perhaps the worst decade of most industrialized countries' economic performance since the Great Depression.[3] Although there was no severe economic depression as witnessed in the 1930s, economic growth rates were considerably lower than previous decades. As a result, the 1970s adversely distinguished itself from the prosperous postwar period between 1945 and 1973. The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 added to the existing ailments and conjured high inflation throughout much of the world for the rest of the decade. U.S. manufacturing industries began to decline as a result, with the US running its last trade surplus (as of 2009) in 1975.

Economics

Throughout the 1970’s were many different things going on, such as wars, internal conflicts, amongst them a major conflict between capitalist and communist forces in multiple countries, terrorist attacks, and last, United States President Richard Nixon resigns as President in 1974 while facing charges for impeachment for the Watergate scandal. The presidents during the 1970’s were Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.

Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter

Politics

The environment in this decade was somehow intellectual, due that many things were starting to develop, such as science and technology. Cellphones were coming out, electronics and communications were exploding, and space exploration was also practiced.

Environment

The role of women in society was profoundly altered with growing feminism across the world and with the presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state outside of monarchies and heads of government in a number of countries across the world during the 1970s, many being the first women to hold such positions. The early 1970s saw the rise of popular soft rock/pop rock music, with recording artists such as The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, The Carpenters, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, The Eagles, America, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney and Wings, Bread and Steely Dan as well as the further rise of such popular, influential rhythm and blues (R&B) artists as multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder and the popular quintet The Jackson 5.

Society & Culture

Unscramble the words below:1. RdiNciraonxh________________2. eHipips_______________3. tcxoTEophgioenollyn________________4. soinhFa________________5. islsriCOi________________

Word Bank. Hippies, Technology Explosion, Oil Crisis, Richard Nixon, Fashion

Game-Word Scramble