Series
Summary
"Middle school readers will find out about the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1970-1979"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- Welcome to the 1970s
- War protest turns deadly
- Terror in the skies
- Antiwar sentiment peaks
- The Cold War thaws
- Tragedy in the music world
- Terrorists strike the Olympics
- Record-setting athletes
- U.S. troops leave Vietnam
- Nation endures oil crisis
- President Nixon resigns
- Hollywood's biggest hits
- America celebrates its bicentennial
- Disco dancing and funky fashion
- Progress in the Middle East
- Mass suicide in Jonestown
- Tragedy avoided at Three Mile Island
- America's crisis of confidence
- Americans held hostage in Iran
- Soviet troops invade Afghanistan.