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The 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.

In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals^[1] that followed the end of the postwar economic boom.^[2] On a global scale, it was characterized by frequent coups, domestic conflicts and civil wars, and various political upheavals and armed conflicts which arose from or were related to decolonization, and the global struggle between NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Many regions had periods of high-intensity conflict, notably Southeast Asia, the Mideast, and Africa.

In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 election resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. Industrialized countries experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal government coming to power with the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The 1970s was also an era of great technological and scientific advances; since the appearance of the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, the decade was characterised by a profound transformation of computing units – by then rudimentary, spacious machines – into the realm of portability and home accessibility.

On the other hand, there were also great advances in fields such as physics, which saw the consolidation of quantum field theory at the end of the decade, mainly thanks to the confirmation of the existence of quarks and the detection of the first gauge bosons in addition to the photon, the Z boson and the gluon, part of what was christened in 1975 as the Standard Model.

In Asia, the People's Republic of China's international relations changed significantly following its recognition by the United Nations, the death of Mao Zedong and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.^[3] The United States withdrew its military forces from the Vietnam War. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to the Soviet–Afghan War.

The 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, but in the late 1970s, the situation in the Middle East was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. Political tensions in Iran exploded with the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established an Islamic republic under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini.

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Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Produced and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it is based on the English folktale "Robin Hood". Taking place in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, the story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John, and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian. The film features the voices of Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Pat Buttram, Monica Evans, Terry-Thomas, Roger Miller, and Carole Shelley.

The idea to adapt Robin Hood into an animated feature was dated back to Walt Disney's interest in the tale of Reynard the Fox following the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The idea was repeatedly shelved for several decades. In 1968, Ken Anderson pitched a film adaptation of Robin Hood, incorporating ideas from Reynard the Fox by using anthropomorphic animals rather than humans. The project was approved, becoming the first completely "post-Walt" animated feature and the first with an entirely non-human cast. (Full article...)

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Hafez al-Assad (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator who was the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also the prime minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000. Hafez al-Assad was a key participant in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in the country, a power that lasted until the fall of the regime in 2024, then led by his son Bashar.

The new leadership appointed Assad as the commander of the Syrian Air Force. In February 1966 Assad participated in a second coup, which toppled the traditional leaders of the Ba'ath Party. Assad was appointed defence minister by the new government. Four years later Assad initiated a third coup, which ousted the de facto leader Salah Jadid, and appointed himself as leader of Syria. Assad imposed various changes to the Ba'athist foreign policy after seizing power, such as abandoning Salah Jadid's policy of exporting "socialist revolution" and strengthening Syria's foreign relations with countries that his predecessor had deemed "reactionary". Assad sided with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War in return for support against Israel and, whilst he had forsaken the pan-Arab concept of unifying the Arab world into one Arab nation, he sought to paint Syria as the defender of the Palestinians against Israel. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Swedish band ABBA was one of the most commercially successful European bands of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 2Mid-70s Western-inspired outifts worn by country music group Asleep at the Wheel. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 3Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (from 1970s)
Image 4Atari 2600 (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 5Singer Barry Manilow wears his hair longish in the soft, layered style favoured by men in the 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 6United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria (from 1970s)
Image 7Woman in miniskirt, 1970 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 8Asteroids (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 9Honda Civic sold well throughout the decade. (from 1970s)
Image 10Concorde landing at Farnborough in September 1974 (from 1970s)
Image 11The first Military Junta after the 1976 Coup d'Etat in Argentina, integrated by Jorge Videla, Emilio Massera and Orlando Agosti (from 1970s)
Image 121974 Ford Mustang interior (from 1970s)
Image 13Nixon and Zhou toast, 1972 (from 1970s)
Image 14Example of glam rock costume worn by Roy Wood and Wizzard, early 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 15Apollo 17 Astronaut Gene Cernan becomes the last man on the Moon, December 13, 1972 (from 1970s)
Image 16American First Lady Pat Nixon wears a shirt with the wide collar that was popular until the final years of the decade. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 17A West German school girl with Schultüte in 1970, with a 'hippyish' outfit on. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 18British girls in 1975 in flared jeans (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 19Aerosmith had seven studio albums chart on the Billboard 200 in the 1970s. Their success in the decade, particularly of their albums Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), helped inspire future rock artists such as Slash and Kurt Cobain (from 1970s in music)
Image 20Queen, 1975 (from 1970s in music)
Image 21Galaxian (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 22British singer Rod Stewart, 1976. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 23The early 1970s' fashions were a continuation of the hippie look from the late 1960s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 24Led Zeppelin, 1977 (from 1970s in music)
Image 25Pescado Rabioso's Artaud's album cover (1973) (from 1970s)
Image 26Color TV-Game (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 27A young woman wearing a wrap dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 28Idi Amin (from 1970s)
Image 29Paul Anka in 1961 (from 1970s in music)
Image 30TRS-80 (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 31Bruce Lee fostered the popularity of martial arts cinema (from 1970s)
Image 321976 flyer advertising the racing game Fonz (from 1970s in video games)
Image 33Dave Schultz won Stanley Cup two times (from 1970s)
Image 34Three Los Angeles Chicanos in 1974. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 35A couple at prom in late 1970s: Powder Tuxedo and sleeved dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 36Viking 1, the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars, takes this picture of the landing site in Chryse Planitia (1978) (from 1970s)
Image 37A Women's Liberation march in Washington, D.C., 1970 (from 1970s)
Image 38Typical mid to late 1970s Ted gear, as worn by Shakin' Stevens. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 39Microvision (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 401970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, an example of a muscle car in the earlier part of the decade. (from 1970s)
Image 41Margaret Thatcher shortly before becoming the United Kingdom's first woman Prime Minister in 1979. Thatcher's political and economic agenda began the first government committed to neoliberalism. (from 1970s)
Image 42Iranian prince Reza Pahlavi wearing Peacock Revolution-inspired velvet Nehru jacket and geometric print tunic, 1973. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 43Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson from Sanford and Son (from 1970s)
Image 44Fashion models in Leipzig, GDR, 1972. One of the girls is modelling a "maxi" dress. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 45Singer Billy Preston in 1974 wearing an Afro hairstyle. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 46Pakistan Army General A. A. K. Niazi signing surrender agreement before Sh. Jagjit Singh Aurora of Indian Army after getting defeated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against East Pakistan, which eventually liberated as Bangladesh later. (from 1970s)
Image 47 Fairchild Channel F (1976) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 48Siouxsie Sioux of the English punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 49An artist impression of an American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking, a propaganda portrait for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project mission (from 1970s)
Image 50John Denver, 1975 (from 1970s in music)
Image 51Diane von Fürstenberg's wrap dress, designed in the 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 52English girl in the mid-1970s wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, belted at the waist. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 53VT100 (1978) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 54Egyptian military vehicles crossing the Suez Canal on October 7, 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. (from 1970s)
Image 55By the early 1970s, miniskirts had reached an all-time popularity. This young English woman is wearing a fringed suede miniskirt, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 56Ramones's lead guitarist Johnny Ramone performing in Toronto, 1977 (from 1970s in music)
Image 57British rock band Queen (pictured here in 1977) was considered to be one of the most influential bands of the '70s (as well as the '80s), along with American rock band Eagles and others (from 1970s)
Image 58Jorge Luis Borges with admirers in 1976. (from 1970s)
Image 59Bob Marley, 1980 (from 1970s in music)
Image 601979 Iranian Revolution (from 1970s)
Image 61Line at a gas station in Maryland, June 15, 1979. (from 1970s)
Image 62African American couple, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, July 1975 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 63Swedish model Efva Attling in a "midi" dress, Kings Road, London, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 64Linda Ronstadt in 1976 (from 1970s in music)
Image 65Haile Selassie was overthrown from power in Ethiopia, ending one of the longest-lasting monarchies in world history. (from 1970s)
Image 66Rigo Tovar (from 1970s in music)
Image 67Polistil VG2 Pong clone (1978), made in Italy (from 1970s in video games)
Image 68Jose Jose (from 1970s in music)
Image 69British rock band Led Zeppelin was one of the most popular and influential bands of the 1970s. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound has led them to be cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal. (from 1970s)
Image 70Death Race (1976) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 71Pink 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. (from 1970s)
Image 72The CN Tower was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure. (from 1970s)
Image 731973 Volvo P1800 sportwagon. (from 1970s)
Image 74Intellivision (1979) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 75Girl in 1973 with a "flicked" hairstyle. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 76Singer Cher in 1971. In the 1970s, women's hair was usually worn long with a centre parting (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 77The British band The Bee Gees were one of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s leading the disco phenomenon (from 1970s in music)
Image 78Aldo Moro (from 1970s)
Image 79Hank Williams (from 1970s in music)
Image 80Flared jeans and trousers were popular with both sexes as can be seen at this East German disco party in 1977. In the socialist part of Germany (until 1990), the government regarded western influences on cultural life of their population very critical, but factually tolerated them in many fields. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 81Pong (1972) (from 1970s)
Image 82Los Angeles high school students, 1973. The tousled, blond surfer hair was popular for young men in southern California. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 83Actress Camille Keaton in 1972. Throughout most of the decade, women preferred light, natural-looking make-up for the daytime. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 84British rock band Killing Floor, 1971. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 85Anti-war protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 1971. (from 1970s)
Image 86AC/DC, August 1979 (from 1970s in music)
Image 87Willie Nelson became one of the most popular country music artists during the 1970s. (from 1970s in music)
Image 88Henry Mancini (from 1970s in music)
Image 89Pink Floyd, 1973 (from 1970s in music)
Image 90Singer Rod Stewart performing in 1976. He was one of the major British soft rock artists of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 91Mario Kempes scores the first goal in the 1978 World Cup Final for Argentina (from 1970s)
Image 92Susana Giménez wearing hotpants, 1977 (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 93Debbie Harry of Blondie in 1977. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 94Steve McQueen with sideburns, 1972. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 95Swedish model Ulla Jones dressed in a lurex halter top and matching flared trousers (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 96Apple II (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 97American casual attire, 1974. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 98Commodore PET (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 99Salah Zulfikar and Zubaida Tharwat in The Other Man (1973) (from 1970s)
Image 100King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (from 1970s)
Image 101Charlie Rich (from 1970s in music)
Image 102Kansas (from 1970s in music)
Image 103Elton John was one of the most commercially successful solo pop acts of the 1970s (from 1970s in music)
Image 104Mao Zedong wearing gray Zhongshan suit, 1972. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 105The Eagles (from 1970s in music)
Image 106Two women in 1979 wear the trendy tube tops, while the woman on the far left is wearing a rayon strapless dress (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 107The world map of military alliances in 1970s: Western allies (blue), Non-aligned countries (green) and Soviet allies (red) (from 1970s)
Image 108Two punks from the late 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 109Footballer George Best wore long hair in 1976. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 110Public at the farewell concert of Sui Generis (1975) (from 1970s)
Image 111Home Pong console (museum recreation) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 112Microvision (1979) is the first handheld game console that used interchangeable cartridges. (from 1970s)
Image 113Park Chung Hee (from 1970s)
Image 114Frisbee player Ken Westerfield wearing draw string bell bottoms in the late 1970s (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 115Punk pioneer Lene Lovich in 1979, with her trademark long plaited hair. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 116Debby Boone song "You Light Up My Life" had the most weeks at number one (from 1970s in music)
Image 117Alan Bennett in 1973, wearing a wide necktie (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 118Isabel Perón becomes the first woman President of Argentina in 1974 and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the Western hemisphere. (from 1970s)
Image 119Silk scarves were popular fashion accessories for women in the 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 120The Vietnam War (1955–1975) (from 1970s)
Image 121In 1971 hotpants and bell-bottomed trousers were popular fashion trends (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 122Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War in the early decade. The New York Times leaked information regarding the nation's involvement in the war. Political pressure led to America's withdrawal from the war in 1973, and the Fall of Saigon in 1975 leading to evacuations of South Vietnamese that same year; the 1973 oil crisis causes a financial crisis throughout the developed world; both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; in 1971, the Pakistan Armed Forces commits the 1971 Bangladesh genocide to curb independence movements in East Pakistan, killing 300,000 to 3,000,000 people; this consequently leads to the Bangladesh Liberation War; the 1970 Bhola cyclone kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan in November 1970, and became the deadliest natural disaster in 40 years; the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ousts Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who is later replaced by an Islamic theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini; the popularity of the disco music genre and subculture peaks during the mid-to-late 1970s.
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Image 123Magnavox Odyssey (1972) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 124David Bowie in the early 1970s. (from 1970s in fashion)
Image 125Loretta Lynn (from 1970s in music)
Image 126America's first space station Skylab in orbit February 8, 1974 (from 1970s)
Image 127The Bee Gees, in 1968 (from 1970s in music)
Image 128Atari 2600 (1977) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 129Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shake hands, Camp David, 1978 (from 1970s)
Image 130The 1970 Bhola cyclone, considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster, kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan during November 1970. (from 1970s)
Image 131Pong arcade machine (1972) (from 1970s in video games)
Image 132Voyager 1 passing by Jupiter's Great Red Spot February 25, 1979 (from 1970s)
Image 133El Tri Band founder Alex Lora, on stage with the band in 2006 (from 1970s in music)
Image 134Nixon displays the V-for-victory sign as he departs the White House after resigning (from 1970s)

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