"Stayin’ Alive" in the 70s
This oil-producing group used an embargo in 1973 to raise prices and influence global politics.
What is OPEC?
This Southeast Asian war ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon.
What is the Vietnam War?
This music festival symbolized counterculture and anti-war sentiment in 1969.
What is Woodstock?
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Apple co-founder helped popularize personal computers.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This economic condition combines inflation with stagnant growth and high unemployment.
What is stagflation?
This U.S. policy shifted responsibility for fighting to South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?
This feminist organization was founded by Betty Friedan to advocate for women’s rights.
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of Cold War divisions in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This company was founded by Bill Gates and helped lead the computer revolution.
What is Microsoft?
This U.S. president brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This Soviet invasion in 1979 led to a long war against the mujahideen in this country.
What is Afghanistan?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This Polish labor movement helped end communist rule.
What is Solidarity?
This global health crisis emerged in the early 1980s and spread worldwide.
What is AIDS?
This 1979 revolution replaced the Shah with an Islamic Republic led by Ayatollah Khomeini.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
This 1972 agreement limited nuclear arms between the U.S. and USSR.
What is SALT I?
This shooting of student protesters in 1970 intensified anti-war protests.
What is the Kent State shooting?
This 1989 protest in China ended in a violent government crackdown.
What is Tiananmen Square?
This nuclear disaster in 1986 exposed flaws in Soviet technology and secrecy.
What is Chernobyl?
This Cold War policy aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is détente?
This 1987 treaty eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
What is the INF Treaty?
This group opposed the Vietnam War and criticized U.S. intervention as immoral.
Who are the “doves”?
This event marked the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
What was Gorbachev's resignation on Christmas, 1991.
This invention made personal computers possible in the 1970s.
What is the microprocessor?