1970 - 1971By Anders, Jackson, Nilesh, Nathan, Alec, Adam,

and Garrett

Major Events (1970-1971)• Beatles Break Up

• Palestinian Terrorist Group Hijacks Five Planes

• Kent State Shooting

• VCR's Introduced

• London Bridge Brought To The U.S

Sports (1970)• Tim Wood wins World Figure

Skating Championships• Kansas Chiefs win 23-7 over the

Minnesota Vikings (Super Bowl IV)

• The US wins the Davis Cup over Germany (5-0) in world tennis

• New York Knicks win 4 games to 3 over Los Angeles Lakers

• Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds 4 to 1 in World Series

• Mark Spitz breaks his own world record for the 200m butterfly with a time of 2:05.4

• Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi dies (September 3rd); his name then given to Super Bowl trophy

Works Cited:• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_the_United_States• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_sports• http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0801/nfl.10big

gest.superbowl.underdogs/content.1.html• http://www.spokeo.com/Wilt+Chamberlain+1/May+01+1970+Other+Pho

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Sports (1971)• US men's team wins the Ryder

Cup over Britain in team golf• Baltimore Colts win 16-13 over

the Dallas Cowboys (Super Bowl V)

• US wins Davis Cup AGAIN over Romania (3-2) in world tennis

• This year was the first time in 16 years that Americans won both the men's and women's title at the US Openo Men's: Stan Smitho Women's: Billie Jean King

• Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali and wins the World Heavyweight Championship

• Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 to 3 over Baltimore Orioles in World Series

• Milwaukee Bucks win 4 games to 0 over Baltimore Bullets in NBA Finals

Works Cited:• http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20P

ages/Sports/pages-3/Muhammad-Ali-wins-final-victory-over-Joe-Frazier-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side-2011-11-08.html

• http://www.buymeposters.com/product/415162/pittsburgh-pirates-1971-world-series.php

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_sports

Historic People (1970-1971)• Cesar Chavez

o used non-violent ways to help migrant workers in California receive wages and benefits they deserved

• Richard Nixono president of the United States

of America• Billie Jean King

o led movement to motivating women to be accepted in athletics

• Phyllis Schlaflyo led anti-feminist movement

• Joseph Colomboo led movement for Italian Civil

Rightso was an ex-mafia boss

• Jimmi Hendrixo famous rock artist

(eventually dies later in 1970)

Works Cited:• http://www.quia.com/jg/325184list.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean_Kin

g• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_nixon• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chaves• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmi_Hendrix

Family Life (1970-1971)Married couples with their own

children made up 40.3% of households in 1970.

Family households maintained by women rose more than 50%, from 3.6 million in 1950 to 5.5 million in 1970.

Married couples with or without children was about 44.7 million families in .1970

Among all families with children, two-parent families accounted for 87.2% of families in 1970.

In 1970 there were very few single-father families.

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Protests (1970-1971)A turning point was in on May 4, 1970, when four peaceful student

demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen during a noon-time campus anti-war rally. Nine other students were injured by being shot by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4th.

The police opened fire at approximately 12:05 a.m., May 15, 1971, and continued firing for more than 30 seconds. When the order to cease fire was given and the gunfire ceased, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, and James Earl Green were dead. Twelve other Jackson State students were struck by gunfire, including at least one who was sitting in the dormitory lobby at the time of the shooting. Several students required treatment for hysteria and injuries from shattered glass. Injured and carried to University Hospital for treatment were Fonzie Coleman, Redd Wilson Jr. , Leroy Kenter, Vernon Steve Weakley, Gloria Mayhorn, Patricia Ann Sanders , Willie Woodard, Andrea Reese, Stella Spinks, Climmie Johnson, Tuwaine Davis and Lonzie Thompson.

http://www.may41970.com/Jackson%20State/jackson_state_may_1970.htm

http://www.bottlebrushpress.com/antivietnamwarprotests.html

Advertisements (1970-1971)Most of the ads in that time were in color

In 1971, they banned tobacco ads

There were a lot of car ads as there are today

most of the cleaning ads (bleach, tide) had women as the cleaning person

There were a lot of comic ads (marvel, superman, batman)

One of the most seen ads was the ad for a dodge challenger

One of the most popular ads of that time were women's rights ads

The most expensive ad then and still now, are super bowl ads

Books (1970-1971)• One of the famous authors of between 1970-1971 was Judy Blume

• One of the most famous books of that time was "The Late, Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey with more than 28 million copies sold

• The winner for the nobel prize in literature for 1970 was Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and in 1971 it was Pablo Neruda

• The number one selling book was the Bible, as it has been for about 1,000 years with 6 billion copies sold

• The Anarchist Cookbook by William powell was banned from schools for security reasons

Music (1970-1971)• The Jackson 5 Released Their Hit Single "ABC"

• Jimi Hendrix Dies Due To A Overdose On German Sleeping Pills

• Much Of Music Released Related Is About Current Problems In The World (Example: Vietnam)

• Bands Like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin Were Gaining Popularity

• The Rolling Stones Released Their Classic Album "Sticky Fingers"

Work Cited: http://www.electricadolescence.com/2012/03/01/a-history-of-popular-music-the-1970s/

Television in 1970-71As it is today television was a big part of our culture in 1970 and

1971. Some things that were happening in 1970 on television were:

•Marcus Welby, M.D. Was the highest-rated show for the year,•NFL Monday Night Football premiered on ABC,•Barefoot in the Park premiered on ABS as well but only lasted

through 71,•The show Get Smart ended on May 15 and Spider-Man ended

on June 14,•And many famous actors of today were born in 1970; Will Arnett

who currently plays Chris from Up All Night, Tina Fey who is an actor and former SNL star, and many more.

Some things that were happening in 1971 were:•The last cigarette advertisement occurred during the evening

broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC,

•Soul Train premiered,•The Jackson 5ive premiered,•The Johnny Cash Show and The Beverly Hillbillies ended,•And many famous actors of today were born in 1971; Johnny

Knoxville who starred in Loiter Squad as himself, and many more.

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World/National Events (1970-1971)• Apollo 15 lands on the moon and uses the Lunar Rover vehicle for the first

time.

• War between India and Pakistan begins.

• U.S. President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, widening the war in Vietnam. In protest, millions march across the U.S. University campuses are shut down by student strikes. Four protestors at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guard troops.

• U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation of schools.

Work Cited: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe70s/worldevents_01.html

Civil Rights in 1970-71Civil Rights are a huge part of our history.

So naturally something having to do with Civil Rights happened in 1970 and or 1970. In 1970 The film Watermelon Man was released the film is a comedy about a white male who wakes up one morning and discovers his skin is now black. Also the first Blaxploitation films were released. Blaxploitation films were specifically made for an African American audience, but soon enough it broadened to ethnic and cross-racial lines. In 1971 the Supreme court in Swann v. Charlotte-Mechlenburg Board of Education integrated busses on the grounds that busing is a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools.

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1970-1971 Fashion• Mini Skirts• Bell Bottom Pants• Platform Shoes

Assassinations in 1970Pierre Laporte

• Canadian Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec

• kidnapped October 10 1970 by the FLQ - a paramilitary group

• held hostage during anti-government protest

• found dead by strangulation 7 days later, in the trunk of

sovereign-terrorist Paul Rose's car.

René Schneider• Commander-in-Chief of Chilean Army

• kept president Salvador Allende in constant control

• CIA supplied a group Chilean officers with weapons to

assassinate

• two previous assassination attempts on Schneider failed

• on October 12, 1970 Schneider was ambushed in his car,

and was shot several times from close range and died

three days laterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Schneider

Assassinations in 1970 (Continued)Edmundo Pérez Zujovic • Chilean politician• blamed for the Massacre of Puerto Montt• 10 squatters were killed on March 9, 1969• killed in revenge on June 8, 1971 while driving with

his daughter• one of the attackers shot him 12 times with a

machinegun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_P%C3%A9rez_Zujovic

Assassinations in 1971

Hardan al-Tikriti• senior Iraqi Air Force member, politician and ambassador• after overthrowing previous President Qasim, he became the Defense Minister and Premier Deputy• Saddam Hussein partnered with then-president al-Bakr, who used Hussein for popularity• Hussein wanted more power, and knew he could by controlling the military,which meant replacing al-Tikriti• al-Tikriti saw this coming and had Hussein sent away on a plane, but Hussein managed to return a week later with vengeance• using then-president al-Bakr, Hussein had al-Tikriti assassinated by telling telling president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr that Hardan was after the president's seat• using al-Bakr as a puppet, Hussein had al-Tikriti stripped of his position and sent to lower-class jobs (V.P., then ambassador of Algeria, then Sweden)• On March 30th 1971, al-Tikriti was assassinated in Kuwait by orders of Saddam Hussein

Assassinations in 1970-71

Krim Belkacem• Algerian revolutionary, politician and fighter• preferred federalist views rather than the president's central

policies• accused of an assassination attempt on the president and

was sentenced to death• found assassinated in a hotel room in Frankfurt, West

Germany

Wasfi al-Tal• Prime Minister of Jordan for 3 separate terms• Assassinated by the Palestine Liberation Movement• the PLO is aimed at overthrowing the oppressive gov.• al-Tal was assassinated on November 28, 1971• killed in revenge for the assassination of Abu Ali Iyad, who fought against King Hussein• One of the assassins was one of Abu Ali Iyad's vengeful soldiers• al-Tal's last words were, "They've killed me. Murderers, they

believe only in fire and destruction."

Vietnam War in 1970• Vietnamese have virtually taken over the fighting war

• At the start of 1970, American troops on the border areas of Vietnam were moved to the coast and interior

• too much killing took place on border areas

• this was one of the reasons why casualties in 1970 were less than half of 1960's totals

• President Richard M. Nixon vowed to bring home more troops in 1970

• President Richard M. Nixon: “I am tonight announcing plans for the withdrawal of an additional 150,000 American troops to be completed during the spring of next year. This will bring a total reduction of 265,500 men in our armed forces in Vietnam below the level that existed when we took office 15 months ago.”

• 13 military operations conducted in South Vietnam called the Cambodian Campaign

• Majority of soldiers smoked Marijuana while serving in Vietnam to relieve boredom and stress

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http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1970/Vietnamization/12303235577467-4/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Vietnam War in 1971• top secret Pentagon Papers are leaked to the

New York Times containing top secret information on U.S. involvement

• Operation Lam Son 719 is launched on February 8th 1971, aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos

• Australia and New Zealand withdrew their soldiers from Vietnam

• on March 5th, 1971 U.S. the 5th Special Forces Group, the first American unit deployed to South Vietnam, is sent home