2. Time Period:
U.S. History
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3. Unit 8 Directions No Notes  Total different format this unit
All work will be done in the packet
Listen to every YouTube clip. Everything on the test is from these clips

4. President Richard Nixon 1969 - 1974
Youtube 6:21

5. 1972
Watergate burglars arrested at Democratic National Committee headquarters
Munich Olympic massacre
Youtube – 2:49
Youtube 5:52

6. 1974 Nixon resigns Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president
Ford pardons Nixon
Youtube – 5:51

7. 1975 6. OPEC embargoes oil to all who support Israel
Listen only to 3:14
Tempers Flare in lines for gasoline
Start at 1:00 and stop at 6:40
Youtube – 1:25

8. 1975 The War in Vietnam is over.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the Microsoft corporation.
YouTube – 3:00

9. 1976 11. Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
The United States celebrates the Bicentennial marking 200 years as a nation.
Jimmy Carter is elected the 39th President.
Youtube =4:57
11. Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.

10. 1977
Youtube – 2:04
The movie Star Wars is released to great acclaim at the box office.
Today:

11. 1977 Elvis Presley, age 42, is found dead.
President Carter pardons Vietnam era draft evaders.

12. 1978
15. Cult leader Jim Jones' followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana of them are children
1 min

13. 1978 16. During the summer of 1978, the Love Canal came to
international attention.
(Listen to the first 6 minutes)
On August 7, 1978, United
States President Jimmy
Carter declared a federal
emergency at the Love Canal,
a former chemical landfill
which had became a 15-acre
neighborhood of the City of
Niagara Falls, New York.
Youtube - 11:02 (watch only 3:00 min

14. 1979
At Three Mile Island, New York, a nuclear power plant comes close to melting down and releases some radiation into the atmosphere.
Youtube = 1:49

15. 1979
In November, Iranian militants seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran and hold hostages.
Youtube -2:21

16. 1970’s in review
Write the title for each of the 10, then listen to each explanation and explain it in your own words in complete sentences.
Youtube – 2:45
Youtube – 5:25