The
'70s were an extremely interesting time period. Filled with crisis, new
technology, and great entertainment. It will always be an interesting part of
history. The Concorde, was invented during the '70s.
It was elegant and expensive. The Bee Gees will forever remain in the minds of
millions of music fans everywhere. The consumer industry was increasing at
alarming rates. It included popular products and fads, including pet rocks, mood
rings, and the candy, Pop Rocks. Also, of course the ever popular lava lamp. The
original Charlie's Angels was also created during the '70s. The
well-liked movie Saturday-Night Fever with John Travolta in 1977 seemed to
change pop culture overnight. In addition, who could forget Watergate and
Nixon's resignation. The most important event of the decade would probably be the
Iranian Hostage Crisis. 54 U.S. officials were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in
Iran and weren't released for 444 days. The first U.S. space station, SkyLab was
launched as well. All in all, the '70's was a very influential time period in
history.
Editors note:
The 8th grade
graduating class of 2007 at Pocantico Hills School has researched the 1970s and
pointed you to some highlights from this amazing decade. We did this work as
part of a seven week computer course. The purpose of the work was to learn about
different search engines, how they work, use them to find information and to
evaluate the information we found. After the students finished these web pages
they used Power Point to create presentations to teach their classmates about
the year they studied. We are not experts and we know that we only covered some
important topics. If you feel we left out something "very important"
please let us know. Meanwhile,
enjoy your visit!
