The intention of authoring this paper was giving the report of reviewing task of the previous researches done on the strengthening mechanisms and heat treatment of 7xxx aluminum alloys. The overall conclusion is that, the most powerful and so the most common strengthening mechanism in 7xxx alloys is the precipitation hardening (T6 heat treatment). On the other hand, stress corrosion is a problem in T6 treated 7xxx alloys, to address which, researchers have turned to special heat treatment called RRA (retrogression and re-aging) which picks the strength from T6, and stress corrosion resistance from T7x heat treatments.