Need help for school- 80s stuff

[slateman]

In my "Inrtoduction to Communication" class we have to give a group presentation. My group decided we would do the 80s. Just brief overviews on things like history, technology, entertainment (movies, TV, ect, ect.) and fashion. i drew history so:

Could people please post some of the biggest events of the 1980s.

So far I got:

Falkland islands War
Iran Contra Affair
Iran-Iraq War
Soviet-Afghan
Fall of Communisium
Space Shuttle and NASA

Really apperciate the help

[cphilip]

Fall of Communism mostly was in the 90's but could be argued it started in the late 80's I suppose.

Sad thing is nothing realy happened in the 80's.

The Philly's won their first (and only?) world championship in BB

Here is a list of stuff I found:

Reagan wins 1980 election
March 30, 1981 Reagan survives assassination attempt
1981 IBM introduces its first PC
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court
1983 Regan's Strategic Defense initiative, Star Wars
Regan wins 1984 re-election
1986 Space Shuttle explodes
Nancy Reagan spends a million to redecorate
1987 Wall Street Greed, the Michael Milkin Story
1988 The Iran-contra scandal
Bush wins 1988 election, the first President to publicly scorn broccoli
"Read my Lips"
1988 Gorbachev declares the Cold War over
1989 The Savings and Loan Scandal

There is you some stuff to look into...

[dorksquad1]

i was born in 1981, haha

ken
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I banned you last night. Goodby again! - cphilip

[cphilip]

Here is some more stuff I found some of it is repeat but a little of the details:

"Science and technology made terrific strides in the eighties. Large numbers of Americans began using personal computers in their homes, offices, and schools. Columbia, America's first reusable spacecraft was launched in 1981. A sad day in our history was January 28, 1986, when space shuttle Challenger exploded 74 seconds after liftoff at Cape Canavaral, Florida killing all seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe. Research money allowed for studies and new treatments for heart, cancer, and other diseases. Major advances in genetics research led to the 1988 funding of the Human Genome Project. This project will locate the estimated 80,000 genes contained in human DNA. (Try the Timeline)

During this decade Wayne Williams was arrested in Atlanta for the murders of 23 black children, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman Supreme Court Justice, 52 hostages were released from their 444 days of captivity in Iran, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial inscribed with 57,939 names of American soldiers killed or missing in Vietnam was dedicated, income climbed more than 20 percent, Boesky and Drexel made headlines with their insider trading scandals, Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson was the first black candidate, the stock market tripled in 7 years yet survived the 1987 crash, and televangelist Jim Bakker was sentenced to 45 years for selling bogus lifetime vacations. The sexual revolution encountered a major adversary when Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985. Prisons overflowed and violent crime rates which, in 1980, had tripled since 1960, continued to climb with the appearance of crack in 1985. From 1985 to 1990 the use of cocain addiction was up 35 percent, though the number of users had declined. Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign had great influence. Toward the end of the decade, President Bush called for a kinder, gentler nation and volunteerism and contributions reached an all time high.

Families changed drastically during these years. The 80s continued the trends of the 60s and 70s - more divorces, more unmarrieds living together, more single parent families. The two-earner family was even more common than in previous decades, more women earned college and advanced degrees, married, and had fewer children.

Important Historic and Cultural Events
Medicare - authored by Senator Ted Kennedy 1980
Toxic shock syndrome caused by Tampons"

[Potatoboy]

As much as i don't like 'em

1984- Superbowl- Apple: Think Different

also, Time's Man of the Year in 1984 was the Apple.

[synreal]

they got sued for that little, ugly, ivory colored box too