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Another influential genre was the television newscast, which built on its initial widespread success in the 1960s. As the 1970s continued, a new political movement known as the “New Right” emerged. This movement, rooted in the rapidly growing suburban Sun Belt, celebrated the free market and lamented the decline of “traditional” social values and roles. People were deeply influenced by the rapid pace of societal change and the aspiration for a more egalitarian society in cultures that were long colonized and have an even longer history of hierarchical social structure. Rosten, Leo, ed. (1975). Religions of America: Ferment and Faith in an Age of Crisis: A New Guide and Almanac. New York: Simon and Schuster. p.472. ISBN 0-671-21970-7. OCLC 1093360. In 1977 the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was the international celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the accession of Elizabeth II to the thrones of seven countries.

And although the Space Race of the 1960s had lost its momentum by the 1970s, people worldwide continued to cast their gaze skyward for a deeper, long-term exploration of near space. Skylab, America’s first space station, was launched in 1973 and crash-landed in 1979, scattering debris across Australia and the Indian Ocean. Fashion in the 1970s Where to invest for a Labour government: City eyes winners and losers from Keir Starmer premiership

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History of Frisbee and Flying Disc freestyle". Formative Years Frisbee Sports. 2017-05-11 . Retrieved October 3, 2017. While the 1974 figure sounds like a much better wages-to-house-price multiple than most house buyers face today, there was not nearly as much credit available. Western Sahara War (1975–1991) – A regional war pinning the rebel Polisario Front against Morocco and Mauritania.

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shake hands, Camp David, 1978 Nixon and Zhou toast, 1972 In general, by the end of the decade, many people were using their hard-fought freedom to simply do as they pleased: wear what they wanted, grow their hair long, have sex with whomever they wanted or do drugs to help them feel better. The liberation of the so-called Me Generation, in other words, was as intensely personal as it was mass-marketed. SourcesThe 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the " Seventies" or the " '70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. All That Jazz (1979) gained high critical praise, winning four Oscars and several other awards. It was an inductee of the 2001 National Film Registry list. [41] Pink Floyd performing The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973, the highest-selling album of the decade and one of the highest-selling of all time. The first commercially available video game console, entitled Magnavox Odyssey, was released in September 1972, created by Ralph H. Baer. Even musically, the women's movement had its shining moment. Australian-American singer Helen Reddy, recorded the song " I Am Woman", which became an anthem for the women's liberation movement. "I Am Woman" reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and even won Helen her one and only Grammy Award.

In 1970s European cinema, the failure of the Prague Spring brought about nostalgic motion pictures such as István Szabó's Szerelmesfilm (1970). German New Wave and Rainer Fassbinder's existential movies characterized film-making in Germany. The movies of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman reached a new level of expression in motion pictures like Cries and Whispers (1973). Stewart, Ben (10 September 2012). "Performance Pretenders: 10 Malaise-Era Muscle Cars". Popular Mechanics . Retrieved 22 December 2019. It's not just Farage - charities are being 'debanked too': Regulators blast banks for closing accounts, just days after we revealed plight of community groups As cable television became more affordable and accessible by U.S. consumers, the race to bring the silver screen to the small screen commenced with the launch of pay television services showing premium content.positron emission tomography, invented in 1972 by Edward J. Hoffman and fellow scientist Michael Phelps the earliest floppy disks, invented at IBM, which were 8inches wide and long, commercially available by 1971 O'Brien, Jodi (2008). Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. p.709. ISBN 9781452266022. With the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful and other works, such as Sexual Politics, being published at the start of the decade, feminism started to reach a larger audience than ever before. In addition, the Supreme Court's 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade, which constitutionalized the right to an abortion, brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight.