Timeline and Terms

Events

American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Assassination attempt on Gerald Ford
Battle of the Sexes
Brezhnev-Ford Summit
Camp David Accords
Clean Air Act of 1970
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
Controlled Substances Act
Department of Energy created
End of US involvement in Vietnam
Equal Opportunity Credit Act
Equal Rights Amendment approved in Congress
Helsinki Summit
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
Invasion of Cambodia
Iranian revolution and hostage crisis
Jimmy Carter elected president
Kent State massacre
National Environmental Policy Act
Nixon in China
Nixon pardoned
Nixon re-elected
Occupation of Alcatraz
Operation CHAOS
Panama Canal treaties
Pentagon Papers published
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Resignation of Richard Nixon
Resignation of Spiro Agnew
Roe v. Wade
SALT I Treaty
SALT II Treaty
Saturday Night Massacre
Second assassination attempt on Gerald Ford
Second Battle of Wounded Knee
Stanton v. Stanton
Susan B. Anthony dollar released
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Taylor v. Louisiana
Three Mile Island disaster
Title IX
Twenty-sixth Amendment
US recognition for People’s Republic of China
Vietnam peace settlement
War Powers Act of 1973
Watergate break-ins
Watergate hearings
Women admitted to military academies

People

Betty Friedan
George McGovern
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
John Mitchell
Leonid Brezhnev
Richard Nixon
William Rehnquist

Places

Three Mile Island
Watergate

Organizations

COINTELPRO
conscientious objectors
Environmental Protection Agency
New Left
Viet Cong
Weathermen