1970-1980
- 1971
- Nixon opens talks with China
- Wage-price controls
- My Lai massacre revealed
- Pentagon Papers published
- 1972
- Intensive bombing of North Vietnam
- Watergate
- Nixon re-elected
- GNP over 1 trillion
- 1973
- Cease-fire in Vietnam
- U. S. forces withdraw
- Spiro Agnew resigns
- 1974
- Watergate tapes
- Nixon resigns, Ford's pardon
- Serious inflation and recession
- 1975
- Vietnam falls
- 44% of married women employed
- 1976
- Bicentennial
- Jimmy Carter elected President
- 1977: Human rights
- 1978
- Camp David Accords
- Panama Canal treaties ratified
- 1979
- SALT 2 completed
- U. S. recognizes china
- American Embassy in Iran occupied
- USSR invaded Afghanistan
- 1980
- U. S. boycotts Olympics, withdraws from SALT 2
- Reagan elected President
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Aboukhadijeh, Feross. "1970-1980" StudyNotes.org. Study Notes, LLC., 17 Nov. 2012. Web. 18 Apr. 2025. <https://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/timelines/1970-1980/>.
