2. Why should we care about the 70s The reason we should care about the 70s is that it was a very influential decade on todays culture and many important things happened.
3. Description of decade The 70's were a very influential time for music, styles, fashion, cars, technology, movies, and womens rights. There was a large oil crisis. It marked the end to the vietnam war, and the beginning of apple computers. president Richard Nixon was forced to resign because of the watergate scandal which was caused because he was spying on the democratic party and stealing money.
5. People involved Everyone was involved in the 70s but some major people are groups are the EPA which was just starting out, many bands such as Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd, Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
6. Description of what happened The hippie group which started in the sixties started to fade out in the later part of the seventies. Environmental groups increased majorly. Many arab companies refused to ship fuel to america because we supported isreal in its conflict with Syria and Egypt causing huge oil crisis making gas prices rise drastically.
7. political cartoon This cartoon shows how the people in high positions in government were taking government money for themselves and tried to cover each others backs.
12. Conclusion Many things happened in the 70s there was good and there was bad but it would have been a cool time to live. People were starting groups to make the world better, many great songs were created, some of the iconic muscle cars were created such as the pontiac fire bird and the 2 nd generation mustang and camaro. But there was an oil crisis and corrupt government.
