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100
Also known as the May 4th Massacre, this is the name for the shooting of the National Guard on university student demonstrators in 1970.
What is the Kent State shooting?
100
This rock 'n' roll icon dies in his home in Graceland at age 42 in 1977.
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
This man was the winner of the 1976 presidential election.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
100
United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level in 1970.
What is the Clean Air Act?
100
Orbiting the Earth from 1973 to 1979, this space station was launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station.
What is Skylab?
200
The night in which five men were arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in an office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
200
This majorly influential, internationally-recognized music group broke apart in 1970.
Who are The Beatles?
200
This addition to the United States Constitution lowered the voting age in America from 21 to 18 years old in 1971.
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
An agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
200
This major American broadcast television network began operations in 1970.
What is PBS?
300
This 1973 Supreme Court ruling overturned state laws against abortion and legalized abortion in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
These two major television programs first premiered in 1975 on NBC.
What is Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live?
300
1973 negotiations intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War; ended direct U.S. military involvement, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam
What is The Paris Peace Accords?
300
An annual event, first celebrated on April 22, 1970, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
What is Earth Day?
300
The final mission of the United States' this lunar landing program, and was the sixth and last landing of humans on the Moon.
What is Apollo 17?
400
A diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States in 1979 where fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days.
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
400
This popular television show premiered in 1972 and depicted the experience of doctors in the Korean War.
What is M*A*S*H*?
400
President Nixon was the first and only President to do what in 1974?
What is the resignation of the presidency?
400
In 1974, at 149, the largest series of tornadoes in history hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province
What is the Super Outbreak?
400
In 1975, this programming was created by a man named Bill Gates and in time, would dominate the home computer operating system market.
What is Microsoft?
500
This foreign bridge was relocated and completed in 1971 (along with a canal), and links an island in the Colorado River with the main part of Lake Havasu City.
What is the London Bridge?
500
The mid-1970s saw the rise of this type of music through artists and bands such as ABBA and Bee Gees.
What is disco?
500
The Senate votes to turn this major naval center over to foreign control on December 31, 1999 in 1978.
What is the Panama Canal?
500
This is a division of the Executive Office of the President, created in 1970, that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiative
What is The Council on Environmental Quality?
500
This was the second non-American automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit.
What is Volkswagen?
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