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What's Goin' On: American popular music explodes into new formats, while established artists, including Blondie, Billy Joel and KISS find new ways to express themselves.
It was in the 1970s that television matured into the medium we know today. There was a new candor to network programming as reflected in shows like MASH, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the half-hour comedies of Norman Lear.
A "third rate burglary" leads to the only presidential resignation in American history.
As America withdraws from Vietnam the country begins to reconcile with the effects and impact of the war.
An unprecedented wave of violent crimes grips America throughout the decade.
America seems to go from bad to worse as the country careens from crisis to crisis.
America undergoes a dramatic shift of sexual mores, customs and gender roles.
The birth and evolution of terrorism as we know it today.
American popular music explodes into new formats while established artists find new creative voice.
