Pop Culture
A fusion of youth culture with imagery and music, popularizing the "look" of music like never before
What is MTV?
An outbreak of unusual health conditions in otherwise healthy, young gay men in New York City, San Francisco and other urban areas.
What is aids
The political conservative movement that placed a strong emphasis on traditional social values and promoted socially conservative policies
What is the New Right
Lower marginal tax rates, less regulation, restrained government spending, noninflationary monetary policy
What is Reaganomics
The Challenger Explosion brought the space program to a halt for this many years
What is 3 years
This trend of women's fashion included shoulder pads, pointed shoes, and big hair dos in order to be taken seriously in the workplace.
What is power dressing?
A privately funded effort to educate school children on the dangers of drug use.
A secretly facilitated arms sale to Iran, despite an arms embargo, with the goal of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon.
What is the Iran-Contra affair
Average price of a American House in the 80s
What is $70,000
CNN was the first news channel to provide this
What is 24hr news coverage
Artist that popularized sexuality and expression through music videos and unique style.
Who is Madonna?
A 1980’s feminist movement against sexual violence.
What is "Take Back the Night"
A prominent organization associated with the New Right movement. It sought to mobilize conservative Christian voters around issues such as abortion, school prayer, and opposition to gay rights
What is the moral majority
The first contemporary global financial crisis unfolded on October 19, 1987
What is Black Monday
The Fall of the Berlin Wall marked this for Americans
What is the cold war
Movies in the 1980s glorified people of what profession?
Who are cops/police men?
States had the right to impose new restrictions on abortion. As a result, abortion restrictions varied from state to state.
What is Webster v. Reproductive Health Care Services
a missile defense system that aimed to protect the United States from potential nuclear attacks
What is the Strategic defense Initiative/SDI
Helped to keep home sales stumbling along in the early '80s when mortgage rates were extraordinarily high.
What is Assumable loans
This woman became the first US astronaut and was a symbol of equality for women
who is sally ride
This men's and women's style consisted of polo shirts and chunky knit sweaters.
What was "Preppy" style
Term coined to describe that Two out of three adults whose incomes fell below the official federal poverty line were women, and more than half the families who were poor were headed by women.
What is the feminization of poverty
The reduction of government interference in various sectors, including finance, telecommunications, and energy.
deregulation in industries such as banking
Helped the US recover from recession
What is the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This disaster caused to us public to become opposed to nuclear energy
what is the Chernobyl disaster