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A band, popular in the 80s, that performed during Live Aid for Ethiopian Famine and stole the show with one of their biggest songs: We Are The Champions.
Queen
Before the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo switch, the older console that began the whole boys and video games craze.
NES (But Gameboy is Acceptable)
1981-89: 3.35$ per hour
Federal Minimum wage (under Reagan)
Purchasing for personal preference and usage.
Consumer/ Consuming
Actor in 53 movies before his role as president of the United States for most of the 80s.
Ronald Reagan
The TV channel that once played music and music videos.
MTV
A popular and portable device that became publicly sold and manufactured during the early 80s, now in millions of homes across the world.
Laptop
Taking a sharp uphill climb when the 80s hit, it stabilized itself after a few years and people found jobs.
Unemployment rate.
April 26, 1986 when the Soviet Union destroyed part of Ukrane in a nuclear disaster that has rendered the area uninhabitable.
Chernobyl
Reagan's ideals and steps for reducing taxes and governement power.
Reaganomics
2 articles of clothing, both normally neon or bright colors to help with the poppy, fast paced world of the 80s...and the jazzarsize that condemns it.
(For the legs and for a portion of the legs on top of the first one.)
Legwarmers and Spandex
The replacements for the 70s 8-track tapes, that all the kids had to manually rewind with pencils.
Casset Tapes
87' sudden stock market crash. Had effects on the overall stability of the economy.
Black Monday
2 similar in style ways to get kids away from drug involvement. One started by Nancy Reagan to encourage kids to fight back against drugs by simply decling and another program to connect kids with local authorites to cut down on drugs.
D.A.R.E. and "Just Say No"
The later and more serious effect HIV can have on a person. While HIV is transmittable, this is not.
This was discovered in 81 and caused hate among gay men.
AIDS
The band lip-synched their way to the top and had to give back their Grammys when their track skipped at a live concert.
Milli Vanilli
A software platorm to connect the world with internet browsers built in the last year of the 80s.
The World Wide Web
Government money from borrowing, not taxes.
Deficit Spending
John Hinkley Jr fired 6 gunshots outside of the Washington Hilton Hotel because he believed actress Jodie Foster would be impressed. He wounded 3 and killed 1.
Attempted Assassination of Reagan
November 9th, 1989 began the fall of the iron curtain and communism in Eastern and Cental Europe.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
More canned items and less fancy things such as Pizza Hut instead of Pagliacci but pretty much the same (more colas as well).
Diet of the 80s
The first sucessful artificial heart. It was used as a bridge for 9 days before Michael Drummond could get a heart translpant.
Jarvik-7
They suffered making ends meet as the demand for their products lessened whilst oil prices reached a new high and intrest rates got higher.
Farmers
1.7 billion dollars; minimum prison sentances for specific drug offenses; public division on whether or not all the programs and money and attention was all based on race; 4 times the number of cocaine ER visits; the Crack Epidemic
The War On Drugs (part 2)
Schlafly vs. Anderson on gender equality.
It passed in both houses and was rartified in 35 states but not legalized as it needed 3 more. This is part of why there is still a pay gap.
Equal Rights Ammendment