Week D42
Topic 70s and 80s
Relate the main events of this time period to things that were going on in your own life/family. This will help personalize it for your children.
Some of the main events:
1971--the first microprocessor (enabling computers/calculators to go from room size to desktop/handheld)
1972--Israeli athletes taken hostage at Olympics
1973--US troops leave Vietnam, Battle of Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1974--Nixon first president to resign, a result of Watergate (accomplishments: brought troops home from Vietnam, first president in China)
1976--white police fire on school children protesting segregated education in Soweto, South Africa
1979--Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman prime minister of Great Britain
1980--Ronald Reagan becomes president (see the book A Different Drummer by Michael Deaver)
1981--IBM's first PC
1984--40 musicians record Feed the World to fight starvation, especially in Ethiopia (which had had no rain since '81)
1985--Geneva Summit
1986--Space shuttle Challenger explodes, Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion
1987--stock market "crash," Iran-Contra scandal
1989--Bhutto first woman islamic prime minister (in Pakistan), Chinese students killed in Tiananmen Square, Berlin Wall comes down after 28 years
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