1970s

File:1970s decade montage.jpg| Clockwise 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.|335px|thumb rect 446 4 592 200 Fall of Saigon rect 301 4 445 200 Pentagon Papers rect 0 2 297 200 Watergate scandal rect 390 202 611 424 Energy crisis of 1973 rect 309 426 600 621 Camp David Accords rect 0 427 152 621 Bhola cyclone rect 154 300 305 486 Bangladesh Liberation War rect 0 203 184 311 Iranian Revolution rect 0 312 184 424 Iran hostage crisis rect 192 203 386 423 Disco

The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "70s") was the decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.