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width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="background:white; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:black;" | width="55%" style="vertical-align:top; padding: 0; margin:0;" | {{Box-header colour|The {{PAGENAME}} Portal}} {{Transclude lead excerpt| 1970s | paragraphs=0 | files=1 |more=no}} {{shortcut|P:1970s}} 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 upheavalsHoward Brick, "Review", American Historical Review (2012) 117#5 p 1537 that followed the end of the postwar economic boom.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/goldenageofcapit0000unse|title=Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience – Oxford Scholarship|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198287414.001.0001|year=1992|last1=Marglin|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Schor|first2=Juliet B.|isbn=9780198287414|url-access=registration}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=903&catid=24&subcatid=155 |title=Economic History of Japan in the 1970s and 80s |first=Jeffrey |last=Hays |publisher=Facts and Details |access-date=2012-12-02 |date=August 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519154037/http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=903&catid=24&subcatid=155 |archive-date=2012-05-19 }} 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. {{Box-footer|Read more}} {{Purge link portals}} {{Flex columns |1 = {{Box-header colour|Selected article {{#if: {{{Purge

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|1=1972 United States presidential election

|2=1976 United States presidential election

|3=1976 Winter Olympics

|4=1972 Summer Olympics

|5=1976 Summer Olympics

|6=Munich massacre

|7=Jonestown

|8=First generation of video game consoles

|9=Second generation of video game consoles

|10=Golden age of arcade video games

|11=1970s in video games

|12=Watergate scandal

|13=Impeachment process against Richard Nixon

|14=Roe v. Wade

|15=The Jeffersons

|16=Star Wars (film)

|17=Space Invaders

|18=Galaxian

|19=Color TV-Game

|20=Pong

|21=Atari 2600

|22=Iranian Revolution

|23=Fall of Saigon

|24=AC/DC

|25=Kiss (band)

|26=Jaws (film)

|27=The Godfather

|29=Grease (film)

|30=Superman (1978 film)

|31=Microvision

|32=Tate–LaBianca murders

|33=Bee Gees

|34=The Jackson 5

|35=Good Times

|36=Rapper's Delight

|37=Saturday Night Live

|38=All in the Family

|39=Monday Night Football

|40=Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

|41=The Aristocats

|42=Robin Hood (1973 film)

|43=The Rescuers

|44=Rainbow/PUSH

|45=War on drugs

|46=Soviet–Afghan War

|47=Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

|48=1970s energy crisis

|49=Apollo–Soyuz

|50=Helsinki Accords

|51=Pardon of Richard Nixon

|52=United States Environmental Protection Agency

|53=Soviet–Afghan War

|54=Disco

|56=Roller disco

|57=Running boom of the 1970s

|58=Punk rock

|59=New wave music

|60=Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

|61=Death and state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser

|62=Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II

|63=Video Killed the Radio Star

|64=History of arcade video games

|65=Asteroids (video game)

|66=Atari

|67=ABBA

|68=Star Trek: The Motion Picture

|69=Apple Inc.

|70=Microsoft

|71=Fight of the Century

|72=1970 FIFA World Cup

|73=1974 FIFA World Cup

|74=1978 FIFA World Cup

|75=Battle of the Sexes (tennis)

|76=Break-up of the Beatles

|77=United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758

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|1=Richard Nixon

|2=Pat Nixon

|3=Gerald Ford

|4=Betty Ford

|5=Jimmy Carter

|6=Walter Mondale

|7=Rosalynn Carter

|8=Spiro Agnew

|9=Nelson Rockefeller

|10=George McGovern

|11=Diana Ross

|12=Marvin Gaye

|13=Bill Withers

|14=Stevie Wonder

|15=Gene Simmons

|16=Bob Marley

|17=Christopher Reeve

|18=Jim Jones

|19=Charles Manson

|20=Tina Turner

|21=DJ Kool Herc

|22=James Brown

|23=Gloria Gaynor

|24=Billy Preston

|25=David Bowie

|26=Afrika Bambaataa

|27=Pierre Trudeau

|28=Harold Wilson

|29=Edward Heath

|30=James Callaghan

|31=Indira Gandhi

|32=Robert Muldoon

|33=Malcolm Fraser

|34=Ruhollah Khomeini

|35=Nikolai Podgorny

|36=Leonid Brezhnev

|37=Luis Echeverría

|38=José López Portillo

|39=Golda Meir

|40=Yitzhak Rabin

|41=Menachem Begin

|42=Anwar Sadat

|43=Yasser Arafat

|44=Hafez al-Assad

|45=Henry Kissinger

|46=Bruce Lee

|47=Chuck Norris

|48=Mark Hamill

|49=Harrison Ford

|50=Steve Wozniak

|51=Bill Gates

|52=Carl Albert

|53=Jeffrey Dahmer

|54=Ozzy Osbourne

|55=Bruno Sammartino

|56=Fela Kuti

|57=Billy Joel

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