The 1980 s The Reagan Era 1980 Moscow
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The 1980 s The Reagan Era
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics • The U. S and 64 other countries boycotted t he games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This led to Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
CNN Goes On The Air Ted Turner established CNN, the first all news service.
John Lennon Assassinated Mark David Chapman
Mount St. Helens Eruption Located in the state of Washington Fifty-seven people were killed
• video of Mt St Helens
1980 Presidential Election REPUBLICAN Ronald Reagan DEMOCRATIC Jimmy Carter
Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time in 28 years
Solidarity (Polish Trade Union) • Solidarity was the first non-communist partycontrolled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country. • The government attempted to destroy the union, but talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition led to semi-free elections in 1989.
Assassination attempt on President Reagan on March 30, 1981 John Hinckley, Jr
Sandra Day O’Connor First woman appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court 1981 -2006
April 1981 The space shuttle launches for the first time Columbia
AIDS
August 1: The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day music television station
Air Traffic Controller Strike Reagan fired 11, 345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored a return to work order
IBM introduced the first personal computer, or PC
Chicago Tylenol Murders 1982 Acetaminophen Cyanide
The Equal Rights Amendment died, three states short of ratification.
The Vietnam Memorial was erected in Washington D. C.
Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry" • Tied 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and flew as high as 16, 000 feet before shooting the balloons with a pellet gun and landing about 90 minutes later. • The FAA fined him $1, 500.
1982 -1983
Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called SDI…. or ‘Star Wars’ 1983
Sally Ride The First American Woman in Space
Embassy in Beirut Bombing April 18, 1983 • A suicide bombing against the U. S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. • Killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff, It was the deadliest attack on a U. S. diplomatic mission up to that time, Marines and sailors. and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-U. S. attacks by Islamist groups.
“Just Say No" The anti-drug slogan was created and championed by First Lady Nancy Reagan during her husband's presidency
Invasion of Grenada • US invaded Grenada after coup on the islands.
• Reagan sent U. S. forces to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada. • Congress was notified, but not consulted. • The reasons given to the American people for this invasion (officially called Operation Urgent Fury) were that a recent coup that had taken place in Grenada put American citizens (students at a medical school on the island) in danger. More medals were handed out during the invasion than during the entire Vietnam war.
The Macintosh Personal Computer 1894
1984 Presidential Election Republican President Reagan Democratic Walter Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro Became the first woman Vice President running mate.
PG-13 Movie Rating Created
The Opening of the Soviet Union 1985 Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev called for glasnost (Openness) … and perestroika (political and economic reform) Perestroika is often argued to be one reason for the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and for the end of the Cold War
New Coke The Original Coke…or “Classic Coke” New Coke was a failure. The new product continued to be sold and retained the name Coca-Cola (until 1992, when it was officially renamed Coca-Cola II), so the old product was named Coca-Cola Classic, more commonly Coke Classic and later just Coke.
Wreckage of the Titanic discovered
Crack Cocaine
Wembley Stadium, London A multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. JFK Stadium in Philadelphia
Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster It broke apart 73 seconds into its flight January 28, 1986
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident April 1986 in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union). It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The town of Pripyat, Ukraine was abandoned after the Chernobyl incident.
Iran-Contra Scandal • A political scandal during the Reagan administration, in which senior U. S. figures, including President Ronald Reagan, agreed to make possible the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. • U. S. officials hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of six U. S. hostages held by the Lenonese • It would also allow U. S. intelligence agencies to fund Nicaraguan contras.
U. S. Bombs Libya The U. S. launched air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens.
“Baby Jessica, " Jessica Mc. Clure fell down a well • Workers spent 58 hours trying to rescue her.
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"
SALT II
Music
Heavy Metal Hair Bands Motley Crue today
New Wave
The Cool Stuff
FADS Swatch
Style
Films
Television The A Team Who’s The Boss The Cosby Show Dallas
The Bernstein Bears G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero The California Raisins The Care Bears
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Presidential Election 1988 Republican George Bush Democratic Michael Dukakis
Pan Am Flight 103 Wendy Lincoln, Age 23, North Adams, Mass.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill • Occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989 • The Exxon Valdez hit a reef and spilled an estimated minimum 10. 8 million gallons of crude oil.
U. S. Invasion of Panama December 1989 • Safeguarding the lives of U. S. citizens in Panama. There had been numerous clashes between U. S. and Panamanian forces; one US Marine had been killed a few days earlier. • Defending democracy and human rights in Panama. • Combating drug trafficking. • Protecting the integrity of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. The U. S. that Noriega threatened the neutrality of the Panama Canal.
U. S. Invasion of Panama December 1989 • Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was deposed. • President-elect Guillermo Endara sworn into office.
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 In China
The Army Moved In To Clear Out the Demonstrators
The Unknown Rebel. . aka the “Tank Man”
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The End
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