1970's

The 1970’s did a great job at teaching. The best activity was simulating Vietnam using a giant board of Vietnam. I was on the Vietnam side. It was a lot of fun because we got to move our men after every strike from the U.S. This made it easy for us to evade their attacks. No matter how much both sides shot at each other and the many people that were killed, neither team could win. This made a very good comparison to today’s war in Iraq. The biggest event in the 1970’s was the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. America seemed weak and vulnerable because it had lost its first real war. 55,000 American soldiers lost their lives in the Vietnam war. Some people say for nothing. Same with today’s war in Iraq.
We had a lot of fun learning about Disco. We watched a segment of Saturday night Fever. We all really liked it and glad we could see it. When we did the writing about it afterwards I wrote about how even though there was still some segregation shown, disco helped bring the various cultures in America to a common ground. The culture in the 1970’s seemed very different from the 60’s.