1970's - period 5

May 25, 2017

That 70’s Magazine

Popular Movies and TV shows!

New Books: ˆ”The Lorax” Book Review 70s Fashion The Way We Lived in the 70s And BONUS: A Crossword!

Table of Contents Fashion in the 70s “The Lorax” Book Review Film&Theater Sports in the 70s Way We Lived Food in the 70s Government/Politics Education in the 70s Foreign Affairs Music in the 70s Domestic Affairs 70s Wordsearch Law and Justice Culture Celebrity Gossip Wordsearch Answer Key References

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Fashion By: Sabrina The fashion in the 70s included a common theme of hippy. Everything was colorful and full of peace signs. The fashion revolution occurred in the 70s.

Men and woman were wearing tight pants and wearing platform shoes. The release of track suits and jumpsuits changed the fashion industry forever. It was often confused of which outfits were meant to wear at home and which outfit was meant to wear in public. Also, hippies and their clothing were often mocked and used by others. Another popular outfit was colorful clothing with bell bottoms.

Jewelry included peace signs and colorful gems.

These pieces of jewelry contain peace signs and many colors which is an integral part of the jewelry.

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This was a popular outfit worn by hippies which eventually by most of society.

This was a popular hairstyle worn by men.

From this image, it’s evident that belt bottoms were popular.

Book Review By: Deven

“The Lorax�is a children's book that was written by Dr. Seuss. It highlights the plight of the environment through a character named the Lorax, who speaks for the trees. This book came out in 1971 and was a huge hit. This book was extremely interesting and I think children will all thoroughly enjoy it, and learn a lot from it.

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Film & Theater By: Lauren During the 1970s, there were several popular movies that came out. These include Jaws, Carrie, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. During this time period, suspenseful dramatic movies were popular. These movies that came out during this decade are some of the most prominent classics. For TV shows, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Saturday Night Live, and Charlie’s Angels are shows that people still enjoy today. Besides Saturday Night Live, and Charlie’s Angels, most shows were about the lives of families like The Brady Bunch and Happy Days. These four examples are all sitcoms/comedies.

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Sports By: Sabrina One of the most decorated athletes, OJ Simpson, was named NFL Player of the year in 1973. He was a successful football player that is well known for his ability to play football. He was a running back. He was also the fastest player to gain 1,000 rushing yards in the season in 1973. And in 1975 he ran 1,005 in 7 games.

One of the most decorated boxers of all time was Mohamoud Ali. Mohamoud Ali regained his title of the best boxer in the world in 1973 after beating the famous Rumble in the Jungle. He held this title until 1978. He was a famous entertainer and an African American activist. He was known as “the greatest�.

Nadia Comaneci, a famous Romanian gymnast, scored the first perfect 10s in the Olympics when she was 15 years old in 1976. She went from scoring a 1 when she was 10 years old to a 10 when she was 15.

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Way We Lived By: Lauren Major leisure activities included camping, roller skating, and jogging.

People jogged because running as a hobby hadn’t taken shape yet. The pioneer of jogging was James F. Fixx with his books about running.

Shockingly, he later died of a heart attack at the age of 52. Because of the hippie culture and the newfound appreciation for nature, people started to venture into nature more often.

People started to devote their weekends to being in nature and to exercise, but when people weren’t exercising or being in nature, people would oftentimes go to drive-in movies.

Drive-in movie theaters opened across the country, in addition to roller skating rinks.

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Food By: Deven

Watergate salad is an instant pudding that became popular during the 1970’s. It is made with pistachio pudding, canned pineapple, cool whip, and marshmallows.

It was mainly named after the watergate scandal

Fondue is a Swiss dish that includes melted cheese. The cheese is served over a stove which allows the cheese to stay hot. It is served with dipping bread, which is usually attached to a stick for practical serving.

Fondue is a very common food for parties. Considering the 70’s is known as a party decade, fondue was very popular.

Crepes are a type of dessert and meal that originated in France. Their sweet and savory taste was a huge hit in the 70’s.

They became an iconic breakfast throughout the decade.

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Government/Politics By: Sabrina The government in the 70s was a mess, and quite frankly, it was a continuation of the 60s. Women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians all fought for their freedom. The 70s was a decade of fighting for freedom. Also, there was an ongoing protest against the Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam War. The behavior of Nixon made many people discouraged about about trust in the government. At the end of the decade, and currently people did not trust the government. When Nixon sent troops to Vietnam, it outraged people and people began riots. Some riots were urban riots, the anti war protests, and the alienating counter culture–by embracing a new kind of conservative populism.

The politics in the 70s were interesting.

The election of 1972, was Nixon against McGovern. Nixon won the election of 1972.

When When Nixon got reelected, he planned to complete many tasks in his new term. The second election in the 70s was the election of 1976. The two candidates were Carter and Ford. Although Carter won and broke the eight years of Republican office, Ford was the more experienced candidate.

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Education By: Deven The Civil Rights Acts were fairly new, and neighborhoods still tended to divide by race. After the Civil Rights Act, segregation was still taking place throughout the south in schools. Education was really different then from now. For example, during the 1970s teachers could spank their students if they were behaving badly. During the 1970s only 62% of disabled people actually went to school. Many of the disabled people did not have the ability to receive an education.

Afterwards, the law 94-142 guaranteed them an education.

Before 1968, the Supreme Court had decided that school had to be taught in English. The Bilingual Education Act, provided immigrant students with education in their own language.

However, during the 1970s, twenty states made laws to have bilingual education in schools.

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Foreign Affairs By: Sabrina President Nixon and Kissinger worked together. The president and the secretary of defense worked together so frequent that they began to be known as “Nixinger”. In the early 1970s, the first volumes of the Henry Kissinger memoirs came out. According to Kissinger, the US was “in a period of painful adjustment to a profound transformation of global politics; we were being forced to come to grips with the tension between our history and our new necessities.” The US was focusing in becoming strong after the Vietnam War. The US wanted to make their appearance in the world as a country that is not predominated, but at the same time maintained the most power. The relations with trading oil was an integral part of the 70s. In the 70s, a grow of third-world oil plants occurred. In fact, this inspired them to cooperate to embargo oil against the US and to support Israel in 1973. The increasing petroleum stretched supply, compounded to the problem. One of the most notable accomplishments was the approach to the Soviet Union.

Richard Nixon once said “We have an historic obligation to engage the Soviet Union and to push back the shadow of nuclear catastrophe.”

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Foreign Affairs By: Sabrina One of the main presidents of the 70s was Richard Nixon.

Nixon, just like Kennedy, was interested in foreign affairs rather than domestic. Apart from the Soviet Union affairs, Nixon was interested in improving the relationship between the US and China. He wanted to receive credit for easing Cold War tension, but he did not. He wanted to make the Soviet Union and China against each other and then put them both against North Vietnam. This is how Nixon proposed to remove Communism in the US. During Nixon’s first couple of years I in office, the relations between China and and the Soviet Union deteriorated but along the border China and the Soviet Union Union, a conflict erupted. Nixon sent Kissinger to China in order to find out information about the Chinese and their plans about their involvement with the North Vietnamese and the Soviets. Nixon sent troops to Vietnam during the Vietnam war and took troops out of Vietnam which was known as Vietnamization. Vietnamization was a plan done by Nixon when he took US troops out of Vietnam and replaced them with South Vietnamese troops.

Finally, the Iranian Hostage Crisis took place at the end of the 70s but was an integral part of President Jimmy Carter’s term. Fifty-two citizens and diplomats were held captive for 444 days. They were kidnapped by Iranian Shah. Carter. They were released by the Algiers Accords in 1981.

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Music By: Deven

Disco, funk, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, and soul remained popular throughout the decade. If ever a musical style defined a decade, Disco was the definition of the 1970s. This style of music had a great influence on the fashion and culture of the decade. The Bee Gees were a pop group that helped to define the disco genre with their hit "Jive Talkin'" and their blockbuster "Stayin' Alive”. Also, the Village People’s “YMCA” also helped to add to the popularity of disco. Progressive Rock was another popular genre during the 1970s. Songs from this genre were often more spontaneous and experimental while they were playing live, causing a lot of controversy throughout the decade. Bands such as Pink Floyd were known for their albums and were considered some of the best in the genre. Punk Rock was also very big during the 70s. The Ramones were often referred to as the original punk band. The Beatles were listed as the #1 band in this genre. Funk music came out of the R&B, Jazz and Soul music of the late 1960s. This genre reached its height during the 1970s. Artists such as Chaka Khan made music more smooth and soulful. The 70s was one of the biggest music decades in America.

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Domestic Affairs By: Deven Nixon was reelected in 1972. But soon a political scandal would end in his career. During the 1972 election, the police caught and arrested five men who broke into Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex, thus the name of the Watergate Scandal. These men had been hired by Nixon’s election committee to spy on the Democrats. The White House paid the burglars money to keep quiet. Yet in 1973, a Senate Committee opened nationally televised hearings into the Watergate Affair. The main witness was a man named John Dean, a former White House counsel man. He testified that Nixon himself had approved the coverup. It was proven that the President had conspired to cover up the Watergate burglary and many other misdeeds. In 1974, Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became President.

Due to the growing opposition of the Vietnam war, the Kent State Shootings occurred. In 1970, Kent state students in Ohio began to protest against the Vietnam War. Sadly, these protests turned violent, and caused Ohio National Guardsman to release fire, killing 4 people.

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Domestic Affairs By: Deven Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. He served as the 39th president of the United States. President Carter was a member of the Democratic Party, and he served as the Governor of Georgia prior to his presidency. His presidential term lasted from 1977 to 1981. President Carter is known for being very liberal when it comes to domestic issues such as taxes. During Carter’s presidency, he increased taxes drastically for government spending. Carter once said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”

One of the saddest days in the 1970’s was August 16, 1977. This is the day that the beloved and famous Elvis Presley died.

Elvis Presley is an American singer who is known for being the “King of Rock and Roll”. Saldy, the beloved Elvis Presley suddenly dropped in one of the bathrooms in his Graceland mansion. There are many different theories on why Elvis Presley died, yet no one is truly certain. Some believe he died from a heart disease.

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70s Word Search

Answers are located on page 26.

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CAMPING

DISCO

FONDUE

HAPPINESS

HIPPIE

JAWS

JOGGING

LORAX

LOVE

NIXON

PRESLEY

WATERGATE

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Law and Justice By: Sabrina Laws passed in the 70s were aimed to help the environment, an influence of the newfound hippie culture. The Clean Air Act was an act passed in 1970 to reduce air pollution

by Richard Nixon. Nixon decided to pass this as the air was being polluted substantially more than before because of the Vietnam War. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was an act passed in 1976 which regulated the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste which used oil and underground storage tanks. Finally, the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 to protect animals and plants from extinction.

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Culture By: Lauren During this time, the Vietnam War was going on, which caused a hippie culture to arise. This carried over from the 60s because of the Civil Rights Movement. They wanted to spread peace, love, and happiness. In addition, people started to become vegetarian or become aware of it. Women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians and other marginalized people continued their fight for equality. Music was also influenced by this movement.

Liberalism was flourishing with a rising consciousness of environmental problems. Disco became a popular genre of music with soul, funk, pop, and salsa elements.

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Celebrity Gossip By: Lauren

In 1970, the world was shocked to discover the Beatles were separating. They released a final album called “Let It Be”.

In other news, “The Godfather”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, took home several Academy Awards in 1973, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1973, Bruce Lee, the martial-arts actor, passed away. Shortly after the Watergate scandal was discovered by the public, Nixon resigned as President. Beverly Johnson also became the first African American to be on the cover of a Vogue magazine in the United States. Another famous music group, the Village People, released a classic, “Y.M.C.A”.

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70s Word Search

CAMPING

DISCO

FONDUE

HAPPINESS

HIPPIE

JAWS

JOGGING

LORAX

LOVE

NIXON

PRESLEY

WATERGATE

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