1970's
SEPTEMBER 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev dies.
SEPTEMBER 1972 - The Soviet Union basketball team beat the United States to earn the gold medal The US still to this day hasn't picked up their silver medal because of biased reffing.
August 1974 - Gerald Ford becomes US President after Richard Nixon resigns.
APRIL 1975 - North Vietnam wins the war in South Vietnam.
SEPTEMBER 1976 - Mao Zedong dies.
JANUARY 1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President of the US.
JUNE 1979 - President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, sign the SALT II agreement.