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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
August 30 – Abraham Zapruder, Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer and witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1905) September 3. Vince Lombardi, American football coach and National Football League executive (b. 1913) Alan Wilson, musician and composer (b. 1943) September 8 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave ...
1970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, an example of a muscle car in the earlier part of the decade. The 1970s was an era of fuel price increases, rising insurance rates, safety concerns, and emissions controls. The 1973 oil crisis caused a move towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Attempts were made to produce electric cars, but they were ...
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [ 1 ] that ...
1960s – 1970s Wounded Knee incident: American Indian Movement: Radicalization of a Native American movement. Occupation of Alcatraz: November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971 Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California: Native American activists, calling themselves as "Indians of All Tribes" seized the island of Alcatraz and lived there for two ...
1970 — Hard Hat Riot, Wall Street, May 8, New York City; 1970 — Jackson State killings, May 14—15, two killed, Jackson, Mississippi; 1970 — Stoneman Meadow Riot, July 4, 1970, Yosemite, California; 1970 — 1970 Asbury Park race riots, July 4—10, Asbury Park, New Jersey; 1970 — 1970 Memorial Park riot, August 24—27, Royal Oak ...
The 1990s were the longest period of economic growth in American history up to that point. The collapse of the speculative dot-com bubble, a fall in business outlays and investments, and the September 11th attacks, [73] brought the decade of growth to an end. Despite these major shocks, the recession was brief and shallow. [74] Great Recession
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