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The 1970s and America's Crisis of Confidence __ Learn how energy, political and economic change along with many other facters created this national emotional downturn during the 70s - From University of Colorado at Boulder - http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/anxiety.htm
Accident at Three Mile Island __ You will find a report by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission presenting a summary of events, health effects, impacts,
and a glossary. - From US Nuclear Regulatory Commission -
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
American History - 1970-1979 __ You will find articles about fads, culture
demographics plus galleries and links to numerous resources about this period in
American history. - illustrated - From Kingwood College Library -
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html
Cinema History:The 1970s-Era of Cynicism, Disenchantment...
__ A history and
overview of 1970s films. - From Robert E. Yahnke -
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~yahnk001/film/cinema7.htm
DeeT's 70s Page __ You will find a collection of links to culture and history of
the Seventies Decade. - From prohosting.com -
http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/
The Inflation of the 1970s __ "The 1970s were America's only peacetime
inflation: the only time when uncertainty about prices made every business
decision a speculation on monetary policy. In magnitude, the total increase in
the price level as a result of the sustained spurt in peacetime inflation to the
five-to-ten percent per year range in the 1970s was as large as the jumps in the
price level as a result of the major wars of this century." You will find a good
article with graphs. - From University of California at Berkeley -
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/theinflationofthes.html
Kent State forever linked with Vietnam War era __ "Some people, from today's
students to yesterday's protesters to historians, believe the Kent State
shootings helped turn the tide against the Vietnam War more than any other
single event, and that the shift in attitude helped save lives." - illustrated -
From CNN -
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/views/y/2000/04/tuchman.kentstate.may4/index.html
Love Canal __ A brief overview of this ecological disaster. - From NPL - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar180.htm
Media History Timeline: 1970s __ This site lists the important events in the
various media such as publishing, newspapers, musical performance, etc. - From
University of Minnesota. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1970s.html
The Seventies (Energy Urgency) __ Read an essay about the Seventies from the
point of view of the Nuclear Energy Industry. - From Oak Ridge National
Laboratory -
http://www.ornl.gov/info/swords/seventies.html
The Watergate Decade __ You will find a photographic essay on the Seventies
which focusing on the "Watergate" debacle that resulted in the resignation of
President Nixon in 1974. - illustrated - From musarium.com -
http://www.musarium.com/watergate.html
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