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1970s

1970s. Mao Zedong. 1 st Chairman of the Communist Party of China 1945-1976 -Leninist/Stalinist way of thinking -Great Leap Forward killed 30 million+ Chinese by starving them to death. Richard Nixon / Watergate. 37 th US President (1969-74) - Passed the Equal Rights Amendment.

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1970s

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  1. 1970s

  2. Mao Zedong 1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China 1945-1976 -Leninist/Stalinist way of thinking -Great Leap Forward killed 30 million+ Chinese by starving them to death

  3. Richard Nixon / Watergate 37th US President (1969-74) -Passed the Equal Rights Amendment. -Started process to end Cold War (Visiting Beijing and Moscow 1972) -Achieved cooperative program in space with Soviets.

  4. Watergate led towards Nixon's resignation in 1974. The event is named after the Watergate complex, where Nixon's administration was accused for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to sabotage the democrats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHnmriyXYeg

  5. Roe v Wade 1973 Supreme Court Case -Abortion is legal if it is during the first trimester of pregnancy. -Decision gave states rights to intervene during 2nd and 3rd trimester of pregnancy.

  6. Against Abortion For Abortion -The right for the fetus to live -Religious beliefs -Mothers life -Child with disability -Women's rights to their bodies Other Factors to Consider -Womens age -Husband/Parental consent -Countries public assistance

  7. Jimmy Carter US President (#39) 1977-81 -Encouraged energy conservation and solar panels. -Camp David Accords, Egypt-Israel treaty -Championed human rights throughout the world. -Unsuccessful overall

  8. Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge Cambodian Genocide: The Khmer rouge murdered 25% of the nation -Wanted a classless society -Executed anyone with education, even people with glasses. -Recruited children to spy on adults -2 million deaths http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-SI8RF6wDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8Cb2wi8eM

  9. First Star Wars released 1977 -Total box office record (2013) $4,382,359,868 -Awards 25 Academy Awards total

  10. Ayatollah Khomeini / Iranian Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini took over Iran in 1979. The leader then was the Shah, however a group of religious leaders led by Khomeini had dislodged him from his power. -Iran become a theocracy -A switch from pro-western to anti-western -30,000-60,000 killed

  11. 1980s

  12. Ronald Reagan 40th US President (1981-89) Former governor of California and actor -Speaking to Gorbachev into bringing down the Berlin wall. -Reagonomics: tax cuts and free economy -Iran-Contra affair

  13. Falkland Islands

  14. Falklands War Dispute between the British and the Argentinians led towards a war over the small territory of the Falkland Islands (1982). -1000 deaths -British victory -Argentina's military government lost support following the war, the opposite occurred in Britain where the victory bolstered support for Margaret Thatcher's

  15. Margaret Thatcher Britain's first female prime minister (79-90) -Conservative party -Falklands War -Ronald Reagan • “Iron Lady” • Three terms in office

  16. AIDS epidemic 1981 the official beginning of the AIDS epidemic 1983 recommended to avoid AIDS when having blood transfusion or sexual contact 1988 Worlds AIDS day declared by WHO 1994 Significant advances in reducing AID’s, 70% reduction in transmission in the USA 1995 New highly active antiretroviral therapy 2000’s US government continues to provide billions of dollars in AID’s research and awareness. 21:30 36:45

  17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpsaMPHJjM4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMdC9-YqrE

  18. Michael Jackson Born 1958, known as the King of Pop -13 Grammy Awards -750 million albums sold -$120 million income in 1989 alone -$60 million donated to famine relief in Africa -Controversy over child molestation -Controversy over his plastic surgery and skin color.

  19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y Bill Jean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA Thriller http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/28/michael.jackson.black.community/index.html Jackson – Racial Barriers “Jackson continued as a pioneer in the black culture when he broke barriers by appearing on MTV, and by breaking sales records with the 1982 album, "Thriller.“

  20. Famine in Ethiopia

  21. 1 million+ deaths Magnitude of the famine spread towards world-wide media coverage, and support. -Live Aid raised money to help those who were starving in Ethiopia. -Much of the aid never made it to the people (Local governments stealing aid, support NGOs/NPOs failing to follow through) made people question the methods of how people from the outside can help.

  22. Chernobyl Disaster 1986, a nuclear power plant explodes -amount of radiation released was 30-40 times the radiation released from Hiroshima/Nagasaki. -100,000’s focused to relocate -Symbolic of the collapsing Soviet Union -Questioned the safety of nuclear power plants

  23. Fall of the Berlin Wall • November 9, 1989, East Germany announced that the borders between East and West Germany will be opened, and that the wall will come down. • After the Berlin Wall came down, West and East Germany united into a single Germany in 1990.

  24. Tiananmen Square Massacre • Student led protests against the Chinese government in Beijing. • Over 2000 deaths of University students • The Chinese government prohibits its people from discussing the event in China • At the height of the protests a million people assembled at the square.

  25. Tank Man Also known as the Unknown Rebel is an anonymous man who stood in front of Chinese tanks when part of the Tiananmen Square protests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnmnq5nFcZw T. Square mini documentary

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