Introduction Overall the 1970s were a strange decade. People were shifting from a time in the 1960s‚ where the rights movement and helping one another was prominent; to a time in the 1970s‚ that trust was lost in the government and the “Me Decade” began‚ to where everyone was concerned with looking out for themselves. The 1970s were filled with huge events that are still prominent and talked about in today’s world‚ including: Watergate‚ the Vietnam War‚ and the Energy Crisis. I want to discuss
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Focus Question: Outline the changes in influence‚ style and broadcasting of music in Australia during the 1970s. Australian perspectives on immigration‚ war‚ sexual morality‚ the role of women and the environment were undergoing radical change. In 1974‚ the White Australia Policy was scrapped. And throughout the decade‚ women won the right to equal pay and maternity leave and Indigenous peoples made progress on land rights. In 1972‚ Australian troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and in 1975‚ the
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why this paper will be different than if I was writing about the 1960’s or the 1980’s. The political climate of the 1970’s actually turns out to be quiet interesting. It is interesting to hear about the Vietnam War and about the Watergate scandal that went on. It is also interesting to see just how the public was changing at this time. These are the things that make studying the 1970’s so fascinating. There were many different political and social outcomes that came from the war in Vietnam. Some
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3. The anti-poverty policies: Participation‚ empowerment and co-responsibility During 1970´s and 1980´s the anti-poverty policies were mainly characterized by the entrance of the private sector as a social services provider. Certainly the trend of flexibilization of labour and the de-regulation policies‚ created new issues related with the enhancement of the informal sector‚ the contributive social welfare systems‚ and increasing levels of poverty. During the 1990´s the anti-poverty programmes
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thought or identified with politics and politicians concerning themselves or their cliques. Whereas before the 1960’s the general consensus was to vote accordingly as to what was for the good of the nation as a whole. The reason historians blame the 1970’s for this type of self-centeredness is that there was not a fundamental common ground for the entire American population to focus on to bring it together. This type of thinking became known as identity politics because of the divisions that were created
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The World was changed in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of the millions of technological developments that took place. Political events that occurred during the generation of 1970s-1980s have affected the way things happen duringbig roof the foreclosures‚ different politically because of all the attacks‚ and very different socially because of all the new technological advances. Politically‚ many things have changed. Of course there are still attacks that are going on in the world‚ but the attacks
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“What new issues emerged for the civil rights movement in the period 1965-1970? How did black leaders respond to those issues in different ways?” During the period 1965-1970‚ new issues had emerged for the civil rights movement‚ such as the question of whether Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violent tactics were too moderate and limited‚ poverty and voting rights. During 1965 to 1970‚ black leaders responded to these issues in a number of ways. Responses to these issues included the forming
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In 1970 was the federal first attempt to control hazardous air pollutants (HAP).” The current definition of HAP is a pollutant "known to cause or [that] may reasonably be anticipated to cause adverse effects to human health or adverse environmental effects”. It came in section 112 amendments to clean air. The EPA was required by Section 112 to have a list of hazardous air pollutants that may have would cause to mortalities‚ fatalities‚ illnesses or anything that could not be reversed. Once the pollutant
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DBQ3 Movements through the 1960 to 1970s During the years of 1960 through 1970 many movements or groups of people working together to move their ideas forward transformed American society. Two of the most altering were The Civil Rights Movement and The Antiwar Movement. These two movements transformed American people by showing what can be done with will and determination The Civil Rights Movement was movement to receive civil rights for all people regardless of race. In the United States before
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Art Movement of the 70’s Is the art of the 1970’s to suffer a fate similar to that of the 1930’s‚ which has so often been presented as innovatively dull and empty‚ not worthy of much consideration? Ian Burn1 Using a pinnacle moment in history to learn about arts from that era is a fun way to discover artists‚ and their works‚ that one might not have otherwise researched. The purpose of this report was to obtain a better understanding of art in the 1970’s. There’s many ways to approach this‚ you
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