REAGAN REVOLUTION
Ronald Reagan was a member of this political party...
Republican
In the 1980's, America saw a major shift in immigration... whereby many migrants were coming from this part of the World.
Latin America
The Gulf War was waged primarily between the United States and what Middle Eastern country...
Iraq
This company started in 1998 and quickly became the leading search engine for the Internet.
This American Fast Food Icon gained instant fame in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain fell. The price of a burger meal cost half a day's pay.
Who did Reagan defeat in the 1980 election for President?
Democratic President Jimmy Carter
The beating of this man resulted in massive race riots in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Rodney King
Largely recognized as the first modern mass school shooting, this Colorado High School suffered great tragedy in 1999.
Columbine HS
Newspapers
Reagan's Vice President who would later serve one term as President from 1989 - 1993.
George HW Bush
The name of Ronald Reagan's economic policies...
REAGANOMICS
This President faced impeachment thanks to lying about an affair with Monica Lewinsky (a White House intern).
Bill Clinton
Known as the "Black Hawk Down" incident, the battle of Mogadishu was a brutal 15-hour urban firefight between U.S. special operations forces and militia fighters from what African country...
Somalia
In Tiananmen Square, one Chinese man stood his ground against a column of these...
Tanks
This hit 80s song featured all the best artists of their time and benefitted starving children in Ethiopia.
We are the World.
This transformed many American Indian communities in the 1980s, bringing prosperity to many.
Gambling
This country collapsed on December 25, 1991 and brought the Cold War to an end.
The USSR
A massive homemade bomb composed of more than two tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil concealed in a rental truck destroyed an Federal Building in what city?
Oklahoma City
Y2K
In 1986, a Soviet Nuclear Reactor exploded in this Ukrainian town.
Chernobyl
This Russian word and policy meant that the Soviets would adopt free-market economies similar to those in the West
Perestroika, or “restructuring"
A secret 1980s U.S. operation with two main purposes: securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon and covertly funding rebels fighting the socialist government in Nicaragua.
The Iran-Contra Affair
Al-Qaeda
This site led to the rise of modern digital streaming, by allowing its users to download music files for free onto their computers. Within a few months of its launch, 4 million songs were in circulation and in less than a year, more than 20 million people had downloaded the program
Napster
This 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She died as a result of the explosion.
Christa McAuliffe