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The 1970s

The 1970s. The Lost Decade. The 1970s – The Lost Decade. The 60s are often said to have started with JFK’s assassination in 1963 and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975

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The 1970s

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  1. The 1970s The Lost Decade

  2. The 1970s – The Lost Decade • The 60s are often said to have started with JFK’s assassination in 1963 and ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975 • As the 80s had the good manners to show up on time with Reagan’s election in 1980, the 70s only had five years to identify itself • Referring to the 70s as the lost decade also refers to a certain feeling of lostness, a national identity crisis which showed itself in strange ways

  3. Nixon’s Inner Circle John Dean White House Counsel H.R. Haldeman Chief of Staff John Erlichman Domestic Advisor John Mitchell Attorney General

  4. The Plumbers G. Gordon Liddy Jack Caulfield James McCord Howard Hunt Tony Ulasewicz

  5. Watergate • Four Cubans and McCord were arrested at 2:30am on June 17, 1972, in the DNC HQ • Cover-up began the next day, and blame initially stopped at Howard Hunt • It may have stayed there if not for a source known as DEEP THROAT…W. Mark Felt

  6. Watergate • Felt supplied Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein with inside information on the investigation • The President seemed impervious to the growing scandal, until he fired John Dean in April 1973 • Nixon resigns on August 9, 1974

  7. The Energy Crisis • Prices of gasoline quadrupled, rising from just 25 cents to over a dollar in just a few months • Total consumption of oil in the U.S. dropped 20% • USG mandated 55mph speed limit, tax credits, and year-round Daylight Savings Time

  8. “Moral Equivalent of War” • OPEC nations had quadrupled the price of oil in the West • Geo Metro and the Ford Escort are modeled after the 1970's Chevy Vega and Ford Pinto • One of the long-term effects of the embargo was a world-wide economic recession

  9. Earth Day

  10. Silent Spring & the EPA • Silent Spring played roughly the same role in the history of environmentalism that Uncle Tom's Cabin played in the abolitionist movement and Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle played in the reform of America’s food packaging industry

  11. 1970s Culture

  12. 1970s Culture

  13. 1970s Culture

  14. 1970’s Sports • Cathy Rigby became 1st American to medal at the World Gymnastics Championships • A.J. Foyt wins Indy 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Daytona 500 • Congress enacted Title IX on June 23, 1972

  15. Racial Conflict • During the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was the South that was the primary arena for conflicts over desegregation • By the mid 1970s, to locus of racial conflict had shifted to Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, and Chicago

  16. America’s 200th Birthday • “Each generation of Americans, indeed of all humanity, must strive to achieve these aspirations anew…liberty is a living flame to be fed, not dead ashes to be revered, even in a Bicentennial Year” ~ President Gerald Ford, July 4, 1976, Philadelphia

  17. “Southern Fried Chic” • Jimmy Carter was the first southerner elected President in well over 100 years • Americans warmed to Carter’s down-home image and rejected that of the stumbling Ford • A great deal of attention was given to President Carter’s brother Billy

  18. Iranian Hostage Crisis • Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 70 Americans captive on November 4, 1979…the act triggered the most profound crisis of Carter’s presidency

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