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The 1970s in America

Table of Contents

Abortion rights




Academy Awards




Acid rain




Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)




Acupuncture




Advertising




Aerosmith




Affirmative action




Africa and the United States




African Americans




Afros




Age Discrimination Act of 1975




Agnew, Spiro T.




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




Air bags




Air pollution




Aircraft




Airline Deregulation Act of 1978




Alaska Pipeline




Ali, Muhammad




Alien




All in the Family




All the President’s Men




Allen, Woody




An American Family




American Graffiti




American Indian Movement (AIM)




American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978




Anaya, Rudolfo A.




Angelou, Maya




Anik communication satellites




Annie Hall




Anorexia nervosa




Anthony, Earl




Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty




Antinuclear movement




Antiwar demonstrations




Apocalypse Now




Apollo space program




Apple Computer




Archaeology




Architecture




Arcology




Arctic international claims




Art movements




Artificial sweeteners




Arts and crafts




Asbestos ban




Ashe, Arthur




Asian Americans




Astrology




Astronomy




Atari




Attica prison riot




Atwood, Margaret




Automatic teller machines (ATMs)




Automobiles




Ballet




Band, The




Bar codes




Baryshnikov, Mikhail




Baseball




Basketball




Battle of the Network Stars




Battle of the Sexes




Battlestar Galactica




Beatty, Warren




Bee Gees, The




Bell-bottoms




Belushi, John




Bench, Johnny




Berkowitz, David




Bicentennial celebration




Black Arts movement




Black Panthers




Blaxploitation films




Blazing Saddles




Blockbusters




Blume, Judy




Bombeck, Erma




Book publishing




Bowie, David




Boxing




Brady Bunch, The




Brando, Marlon




Broadway musicals




Brooks, Mel




Bryant, Anita




Buddhism




Bundy, Ted




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Busing




Byrne, Jane




Cambodia invasion and bombing




Camp David Accords




Canada and the British Commonwealth




Canada and the United States




Canada Cup of 1976




Canadian Citizenship Act of 1977




Canadian Human Rights Act of 1977




Cancer research




Carlin, George




Carol Burnett Show, The




Carpenters, The




Carter, Jimmy




Castaneda, Carlos




CAT scans




CB radio




Censorship in Canada




Censorship in the United States




Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)




Charlie’s Angels




Charter of the French Language




Chávez, César




Cheech and Chong




Chicago, Judy




Chicano movement




Chico and the Man




Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974




Child product safety laws




Child support and custody




Children’s literature




Children’s television




China and the United States




Chinatown




Chisholm, Shirley




Chlorofluorocarbon ban




Chorus Line, A




Chowchilla school bus hijacking




Chrétien, Jean




Christian Fundamentalism




Cigarette advertising ban




Clark, Joe




Classical music




Clean Air Act of 1970




Clemency for Vietnam draft evaders and deserters




Clockwork Orange, A




Close Encounters of the Third Kind




Closed captioning




Cohabitation




Cold War




Comedians




Coming Home




Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP)




Commonwealth Games of 1978




Communications in Canada




Communications in the United States




Computer networks




Computers




Concert for Bangla Desh




Congress, U.S.




Connors, Jimmy




Conservatism in U.S. politics




Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972




Containerization




Cooper, Alice




Cooper, D. B.




Copyright Act of 1976




Cosell, Howard




Country music




Cox, Archibald




Credit cards




Cults




Culture of Narcissism, The




Daley, Richard J.




Dance, popular




Davis, Angela




DDT ban




Dean, John




Death penalty




Deep Throat




Deer Hunter, The




Deliverance




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




De Niro, Robert




Denver, John




Designated hitter




Détente




Disability rights movement




Disaster films




Disco




Discotheques




Dolby sound




Donahue




Doonesbury




Dreyfuss, Richard




Drug use




Dunaway, Faye




Dungeons and Dragons




Durang, Christopher




Eagles, The




Eagleton, Thomas F.




Earned Income Tax Credit program




Earth art movement




Earth Day




Earth, Wind, and Fire




Eastwood, Clint




Ecotopia




Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




Ehrlichman, John




8-track tapes




Elections in Canada




Elections in the United States, midterm




Elections in the United States, 1972




Elections in the United States, 1976




Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974




Endangered Species Act of 1973




Enemies List




Energy crisis




Environmental movement




Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)




Episcopal Church ordination of women




Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972




Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)




Ervin, Sam




Erving, Julius




Europe and North America




Evert, Chris




Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask




Exorcist, The




Fads




Fall of Saigon




Falwell, Jerry




Family




Fashions and clothing




Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids




Fear of Flying




Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)




Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and amendments




Feinstein, Dianne




Feminism




Feminist art




Field, Sally




Film in Canada




Film in the United States




Fischer, Bobby




Fishing claims in territorial waters




Fitness movement




Fleetwood Mac




Flex time




Fonda, Jane




Food trends




Football




Ford, Gerald R.




Ford assassination attempts




Ford Pinto




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




Francophonie, La




Free agency




Free to Be . . . You and Me




French Connection, The




Gas shortages




Gaye, Marvin




Genetics research




Get Christie Love




Gilmore, Gary




Giovanni, Nikki




Godfather films




Golf




Graffiti




Grasso, Ella




Gravity’s Rainbow




Gray Panthers




Grease




Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972




Green Revolution




Greening of America, The




Greenpeace




Hairstyles




Haldeman, H. R.




Hamill, Dorothy




Happy Days




Hard Hat Riot of 1970




Hard rock and heavy metal




Harold and Maude




Hawaii Five-0




Health care in Canada




Health care in the United States




Hearst, Patty




Heart




Hip-hop




Hippies




Hite Report, The




Hobbies and recreation




Hockey




Hockney, David




Hoffa disappearance




Hoffman, Dustin




Home Box Office (HBO)




Home furnishings




Homosexuality and gay rights




Horror films




Horse racing




Hot tubs




Housing in Canada




Housing in the United States




Human potential movement




Huston Plan




I’m OK, You’re OK




Immigration Act of 1976




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




Income and wages in Canada




Income and wages in the United States




Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975




Inflation in Canada




Inflation in the United States




International trade of Canada




International trade of the United States




International Year of the Woman




Inventions




Iranian hostage crisis




Israel and the United States




Jackson, Maynard, Jr.




Jackson, Reggie




James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1975




Japan and North America




Jaws




Jazz




Jeffersons, The




Jenner, Bruce




Jesus Christ Superstar




Jesus People Movement




Jewish Americans




Jews for Jesus




Joel, Billy




John, Elton




John Paul II




Johnson, Sonia




Jonathan Livingston Seagull




Jonestown and the People’s Temple




Jordan, Barbara




Journalism in Canada




Journalism in the United States




Joy of Sex, The




Jumbo jets




Jumbo Tornado Outbreak of 1974




Kaufman, Andy




Keep America Beautiful




Kennedy, Ted




Kent State massacre




King, Billie Jean




King, Stephen




KISS




Kissinger, Henry




Knievel, Evel




Koch, Ed




Kramer vs. Kramer




Lafleur, Guy




Language Poets




Last Tango in Paris




Latchkey children




Late Great Planet Earth, The




Latin America




Latinos




Lau v. Nichols




Lava lamps




Leaded gasoline ban




LED and LCD screens




Led Zeppelin




Léger, Jules




Legionnaires’ disease




Leisure suits




Lévesque, René




Liberalism in U.S. politics




Liddy, G. Gordon, and E. Howard Hunt




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Little League participation by girls




Littlefeather, Sacheen




Lopez, Nancy




Love, American Style




Love Canal




Love Story




McGovern, George




Mailer, Norman




Mamet, David




Manilow, Barry




Manson Family




Marley, Bob




Marriage and divorce




Martin, Steve




Marvin v. Marvin




Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman




Mary Tyler Moore Show, The




M*A*S*H




Maude




May Day demonstrations of 1971




“Me Decade”




Medicine




Metric system conversion




Mexico and the United States




Michener, Roland




Microprocessors




Microsoft




Middle East and North America




Milk, Harvey




Miniseries




Minorities in Canada




Miss Manners column




Missions of the College Curriculum




Mississippi River flood of 1973




Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood




Mitchell, John




Mitchell, Joni




Mon Oncle Antoine




Monday Night Football




Monty Python




Mood rings




Moonies




Mopeds




Mormon Church lifting of priesthood ban for African Americans




Morrison, Toni




Moscone, George




Mowat, Farley




Ms. magazine




Muldowney, Shirley




Multiculturalism in Canada




Munich Olympics terrorism




Muppets, The




Music




Nader, Ralph




National Air and Space Museum




National Indian Brotherhood




National Lampoon’s Animal House




National Lesbian and Gay Rights March of 1979




National Maximum Speed Limit




National Organization for Women (NOW)




National Public Radio (NPR)




Native Americans




Natural disasters




Network




Neutron bomb




New Age movement




New Journalism




New York City blackout of 1977




Nicholson, Jack




Nicklaus, Jack




Ninety-day freeze on wages and prices




Nixon, Richard M.




Nixon tapes




Nixon’s resignation and pardon




Nixon’s visit to China




Nobel Prizes




Noise Control Act of 1972




Oates, Joyce Carol




Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970




October Crisis




Oil embargo of 1973-1974




Olympic Games of 1972




Olympic Games of 1976




One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest




Open marriage




Operation PUSH




Orr, Bobby




Our Bodies, Ourselves




Pacino, Al




Palmer, Jim




Panama Canal treaties




Paris Peace Accords




Partridge Family, The




Passages




Patton




Payton, Walter




PCB ban




Pelé




Peltier, Leonard




Pentagon Papers




Pet rocks




Photography




Pink Floyd




Pioneer space program




Platform shoes




Poetry




Police and detective shows




Polyester




Pop art




Population Bomb, The




Pornography




POWs and MIAs




Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978




Presley, Elvis




Privacy Act of 1974




Progressive rock




Pryor, Richard




Psychology




Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)




Puerto Rican nationalism




Punk rock




Pyramid power




Pyramid schemes




Quadraphonic sound




Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms




Queen




Racial discrimination




Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970




“Radical Chic”




Radio




Ramones, The




Reagan, Ronald




Real estate boom




Recycling movement




Red dye no. 2 ban




Reddy, Helen




Redford, Robert




Regents of the University of California v. Bakke




Religion and spirituality in Canada




Religion and spirituality in the United States




Reynolds, Burt




Rich, Adrienne




Richler, Mordecai




Robbins, Harold




Robertson, Pat




Rockefeller, Nelson




Rocky




Rocky Horror Picture Show, The




Roe v. Wade




Roller skating




Room 222




Roots




Rose, Pete




Roy, Gabrielle




Rubik’s cube




Rush




RVs




Ryan, Claude




Ryan, Nolan




Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974




Sagebrush Rebellion




SALT I and SALT II treaties




Sanford and Son




Sanitary napkins with adhesive strips




Saturday Night Fever




Saturday Night Live




Saturday Night Massacre




Scandals




Schoolhouse Rock!




Schreyer, Edward




Science and technology




Science-fiction films




Scientology




Sears Tower




Secretariat




Segal, George




Self-help books




Sesame Street




Sexual revolution




Shange, Ntozake




Shaw, Irwin




Silkwood, Karen




Simon, Neil




Simpson, O. J.




Singer-songwriters




Sirica, John J.




Sitcoms




Six Million Dollar Man, The




60 Minutes




Skateboards




Skylab




Slogans and slang




Smallpox eradication




Smoking and tobacco




Soccer




Social Security Amendments of 1972




Soledad Brothers




Sondheim, Stephen




Soul music




Soviet invasion of Afghanistan




Soviet Union and North America




Space exploration




Special effects




Speedy Trial Act of 1975




Spielberg, Steven




Spitz, Mark




Sports




Springsteen, Bruce




Star Trek




Star Wars




Steinem, Gloria




Streaking




Streep, Meryl




Studio 54




Summer, Donna




Supreme Court decisions




Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education




Swingers




Sylmar earthquake




Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)




Talk shows




Tax revolt




Taxi




Taxi Driver




Television in Canada




Television in the United States




10




Tennis




Terrorism




Test-tube babies




Teton Dam collapse




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




Thompson, Hunter S.




Three Mile Island




Three’s Company




Timber industry in Canada




Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972




Torch Song Trilogy




Toxic shock syndrome




Toys and games




Trail of Broken Treaties




Transportation




Travolta, John




Trudeau, Pierre




Tutankhamen traveling exhibit




Twenty-sixth Amendment




Ultrasonography




Unemployment in Canada




Unemployment in the United States




Unions in Canada




Unions in the United States




United Nations




Up with People




John Updike




Van Halen




Variety shows




Video games




Videocassette recorders (VCRs)




Vietnam Veterans Against the War




Vietnam War




Viking space program




Village People, The




Vonnegut, Kurt




Voting Rights Act of 1975




Voyager space program




Walkman




Wallace, George C.




Walt Disney World




Walters, Barbara




Walton, Bill




War Powers Resolution of 1973




Washington punching of Tomjanovich




Water pollution




Watergate




Watkins Glen rock festival




Weather Underground




Welfare




White Night Riots




White Shadow, The




Who, The




Wiccan movement




Wilder, Gene




Wilson, Lanford




Wolfe, Tom




Woman Warrior, The




Women in the military




Women in the workforce




Women’s rights




Wonder, Stevie




Wooden, John




Woodward, Bob, and Carl Bernstein




Wounded Knee occupation




Wyeth, Andrew




Young, Andrew




Young Frankenstein




Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance




Zodiac killer




Appendix