What's going on in the world?
This wall dividing East and West Berlin fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
These colorful cube puzzles became one of the biggest toy crazes of the decade.
What is a Rubik's Cube?
Known as the “King of Pop,” he released the best-selling album Thriller in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This former actor served as U.S. president for most of the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This personal technology became common in homes during the 1980s, changing how people worked and played.
What is the personal computer?
This Soviet leader introduced reforms known as glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This dance-inspired fitness trend, led by instructors like Jane Fonda, became hugely popular.
What is aerobics?
This actress starred in hit films like E.T. and Firestarter as a child.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
This scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran and aid to Contra rebels.
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
This reusable spacecraft first launched in 1981.
What is the space shuttle?
This war between Iran and Iraq lasted from 1980 to 1988.
What is the Iran-Iraq War?
What are Sea-monkeys?
This basketball superstar led the Los Angeles Lakers during the “Showtime” era.
Who is Magic Johnson?
In 1986, the Space Shuttle carrying teacher Christa McAuliffe exploded shortly after launch. Name the shuttle.
What is Challenger?
Scientists identified this disease in the early 1980s, leading to a major global health crisis.
This South American country and the United Kingdom fought over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
What is Argentina?
These colorful rubber bracelets were worn by many teens and children in the 1980s.
What are jelly bracelets?
This British princess married Prince Charles in a globally televised 1981 wedding.
Reagan famously challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” this structure.
What is the Berlin Wall?
In 1989, this inventor proposed the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This global political conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union neared its end during the late 1980s.
What is the Cold War?
This toy line features colorful bears with symbols on their stomachs.
What are Care Bears?
This actor became famous for portraying Indiana Jones.
Who is Harrison Ford?
This attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan occurred in 1981.
What is the Reagan assassination attempt?
This 1986 disaster at a Soviet nuclear power plant became one of the worst nuclear accidents in history.
What is the Chernobyl Disaster?