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1980’s
Sadie Price
Mike Sweeney
Kayla Belack
Megan Allwes
Courtney Joyce
Nick Krall
80s Fads and Fashion
Top 10 80’s Fashion
1.Shoulder Pads
2.Miniskirts
3.Legwarmers
4.Hoop Earrings
5.Fingerless Gloves
6.Parachute Pants
7.Members Only Jackets
8.Units
9.Stir-up Pants
10.Over-sized Tops
Hair “styles”
 Rat tails
 Side ponies
 Mullets
 “Power” Hair
 Crimping
 Mohawks
 Multicolored hair
Slang word
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Tubular
No duh
Where’s the beef?
Eat my shorts
Take a chill pill
Grody to the max
What’s your damage?
Gnarly
Psych!
Not even
Fads: Rubix cube
 Invented by Erno Rubix
 Budapest
 1974
 Called the “Magic Cube” but then renamed
 Sales skyrocket in the 80s
 “Cubic Rubes” create clubs to beat best times
 Feliks Zemdegs has fastest time of 5.66 seconds
Fads: Video Arcades
 PAC MAN
 Toru Iwatani
 Pakku-man Puck Man Pac Man
 People loved it because it was different
 8 spin off games
 World Recorded for “Most successful Coin
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Operated Game’’
Fads: Chuck e cheese
 California 1977
 Founded by Nolan Bushnell (also the founder of Atari and
Pong)
 Originally known as Chuck e Cheese Pizza Time Theater
 Combined with competitor the Show Biz Pizza Palace.
 Features include arcade, restaurant, and animatronic robots
 542 locations in 2009
Music!!!!!!
Michael Jackson
 Born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana
 Died on June 25, 2009 (51yrs old)
 King of Pop, MJ
Off The Wall(1979-1981)
 Jackson released the album Off the Wall in 1979 and won 3
American Music Awards in 1980 and 1981
 Would go on to win 26 more, along with 13 Grammys, and
was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice
 Included hits were “Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough” “Rock
With You”
 Writers included Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney
Thriller (1982-1990)
 The album was released in 1982 and in the 1983 was the
best selling album worldwide
 Included “Billie Jean”, “Beat It”, “Wanna Be Startin’
Something”, and “Thriller”
 The music video for Thriller transformed the music video into
an art
 Won the MTV Video Vanguard Award in 1988 and the Artist
of the Decade Award in 1990
Other Works
 Other albums were Bad(1987), Dangerous(1991), and
HIStory(1995)
 Was a choreographer not only for himself but for everyone
 The robot and the moonwalk
 Inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the 1st- and onlydancer from the world of pop and rock n’ roll
 His revenue from concerts and endorsements have been
estimated $500 million
 After his death he generated $1 billion
Live Aid Concert
Live Aid
 Was a duel venue concert on July 13, 1985
 The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise
funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine
 Known as the “global jukebox”, the event was simultaneously
held at Wembley Stadium in London, England(72,000 people)
and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania(100,000 people)
 In other countries such as Germany and Australia they held concerts
on the same day.
 It was one of the largest satellite link ups of all time. An
estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people across 150
nations watched the live broadcast
J.F.K.
Stadium
Wembley
Stadium
J.F.K. Stadium- Philly
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• Reo Speedwagon
• Can’t Fight This
Feeling
• Roll With The
Changes
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• Rick Springfield
• Love Somebody
• State Of The Heart
• Human Touch
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• Black Sabbath
• Children Of The
Grave
• Iron Man
• Paranoid
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• Billy Ocean
• Caribbean Queen
• Loverboy
• The Hooters
• And We Danced
• All You Zombies
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Madonna
• Holiday
• Into The Groove
• Love Makes The World Go Round
Santana
• Brotherhood
• Primera Invasion
• The Pool/Right Now
Simple Minds
• Ghost Dancing
• Don’t You(Forget About Me)
• Promised You A Miracle
The Beach Boys
• California Girls
• Help Me, Rhonda
• Wouldn’t It Be Nice
• Good Vibrations
• Surfin’ USA
Judas Priest
• Living After Midnight
• The Green Manalishi
• You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
Wembley Stadium-London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FNoIDgNE6o
 U2
 Sunday Bloody Sunday
 Bad
 Phil Collins
 Against All Odds
 In The Air Tonight
 Long Long Way To Go
 Every Breath You Take
 Sting
 Roxanne
 Driven To Tears
 Message In A Bottle
 Sade
 Why Can’t We Live Together
 Your Love Is King
 Is It A Crime
Paul McCartney
Let It Be
Elton John
I’m Still Standing
Bennie And The Jets
Rocket Man
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
The Who
Pinball Wizard
Love Reign O’er Me
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
Radio Ga Ga
Hammer To Fall
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Dire Straits
Money For Nothing
Suitans Of Swing
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1. Bon Jovi / "Livin' on a Prayer" (1986)
2. Def Leppard / "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (1987)
3. Duran Duran / "Hungry Like the Wolf" (1982)
4. Michael Jackson / "Billie Jean" (1982)
5. Prince / "When Doves Cry" (1984)
6. Hall & Oates / "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" (1981)
7. Guns N' Roses / Sweet Child O' Mine (1987)
8. Madonna / "Like a Virgin" (1984)
9. Run-D.M.C. / "Walk This Way" (1986)
10. AC/DC / "You Shook Me All Night Long" (1980)
11. Journey / Don't Stop Believing (1981)
12. Whitney Houston / "How Will I Know" (1985)
13. U2 / "With Or Without You" (1987)
14. The Bangles / "Walk Like an Egyptian" (1986)
15. Van Halen / "Jump" (1984)
16. INXS / "Need You Tonight" (1987)
17. Whitesnake / "Here I Go Again" (1982)
18. Dexy's Midnight Runners / "Come On Eileen" (1982)
19. Cyndi Lauper / "Time After Time" (1984)
20. Rick Springfield / "Jessie's Girl" (1981)
1980’s
Theater, Film, Television,
Radio
Television
• MTV- Music Television
 Started as a channel just for visual rock n’ roll videos, TV shows came about
based on the videos, became the most watched television show for teens
 Frequently juvenile, Vulgar, tasteless, and violent
 Delighted teens and offended parents
• 98% of people owned a television in their household, greatest form of
entertainment for all people of all ages
• Television channels were greatly increasing from only 3 channels to up
to 60
• More competition, T.V broadcasters wanted interest from the viewers for
their shows for more money and audience
• Started showing nudity to catch the viewers attention and increase their
use of street language
Soap Operas and Talk shows
 David Letterman talk show
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Late night talk show host and comedian
Broadcasted on CBS
More than 5,000 late-night broadcasts
Remains one of the most influential personalities in the history of
television
 The Cosby Show
 Story of the Huxtable family, and African American family living in
Brooklyn, New York
 Helped to make possible for a larger variety of African American
shows such as the Fresh Prince of Bel-air
 Stand-up comedy based on Bill Cosby’s family life
Radio
 99% of American households owned around 5 radios
(compared to 98% that owned a television)
 Radio audience tended to be younger, better educated,
and wealthier compared to those who preferred
television
 Radio and television were a competition to each other
 News and music were spread by radio, and it was said
to relax more people on a busy day, and could listen
while they kept busy
 Television was more for night time relaxing, there was
too much going on during the day to sit and watch
television
T.V shows watched
• Saved by The Bell
 High school students and their years of high school and summer
vacations
 Stars Mark-Paul Glasseler, Mario Lopez, Elizebeth Birkley, and
Dennis Haskins
 Dealt with real teen issues such as friendship, drug use, driving
under the influence, homelessness, and every teenage struggle
possible
 Mostly had the teenage viewers obsessed
 After their 4 years of high school series ended, they made a
new series with them in college
 The Simpsons
 Aired on Fox
 Animated 30 min. TV show
 Yellow family, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Holmer, Marge
T.V. Shows continued
 Full House
 Played on ABC
 Took place in San Francancisco, Widowed father, Danny Tanner,
tries raising his 3 little girls with the help of his best friend Joey
Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse
 Wife died
 Struggles on raising the girls because teenage girls need their
mothers
 Family Matters
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Starring an African American family
With the racism in the previous years, that was a big deal
Deals with life complication and an average, middle-class family life
Movies
 PG-13 ratings created
 A Christmas Story- 1983
 Classic, 2 brothers (Ralph Parker and Randy) have a wild
Christmas with their family
 Struggle to find happiness in the holiday while putting up
with family drama, bullies at school, and a very strict,
uptight father
 Famous line “You’ll shoot your eye out kid”
 The Goonies
 Breakfast Club-1985
 5 members, each of a different highschool clique, come together in Saturday
detention and realize that they are all deeper then their respective stereotypes
 Allison Reynolds, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson, and Claire standish
Movies continued
 Back to the Future
 Science-fiction adventure film
 A boy, Marty Mcfly, gets sent back in time from 1985-1955
 E.T- (Extra terrestrial)
 The Outsiders
 Sixteen Candles
 Love story about a high school, sophomore girl who struggles
through her 16th birthday and life itself, then at the end of her awful
day a boy she’s had a crush on for years makes everything better for
her
 Honey, I shrunk the Kids
Theater
 Broadway rebounded in the 1980s with bigger shows
and bigger stars than it had boasted in years.
 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats” in 1982 set a
Broadway record with 4 million dollars, six years later
his Phantom of the Opera cost $8 million.
 Theatergoers, who paid about ten dollars for a seat in
the mid 1970s, now spent between twenty-five and
forty-five dollars a ticket for a show by 1983.
 Theater productions started becoming greater, more
popular, and more expensive as the time passed
Inventions of the 1980’s
Nick Krall
Nintendo
 Founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889 as a card game
 In 1980 the handheld “game and watch” series was released
 Each game was a separate console, showed worldwide
success
 In 1985 the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) was
released in the US
 The biggest revolution in gaming era, used the cartridge
game system and sold 61.91 million consoles
 The beginning of the biggest game series that are still
popular today ( donkey kong, super mario, excite bike, duck
hunt, bomberman, castlevania, zelda, megaman)
 1989, the handheld Gameboy was released with the
same cartridge system, sold 118.69 million worldwide
Influence to the 1980’s
 Kids were able to have a new form of entertainment and
could use it as an escape from the outside world
 Not only did this just forward gaming technology, it also
was applied to greater technology findings, such as the
computer, CD ROM, etc.
 Promised greater entertainment in the near future,
showed how fast the US technology was progressing
Human Genome Project
 Goal was to determine the nucleotide base sequence
of the human genome and map/locate 20,000+ genes
on the human chromosome
 Most of the huge findings happened later, the 80’s
served as the main formation through the Department
of Energy (founded by ????)
 James Watson founded one of the precursor projects
(founded the structure of DNA with James Crick)
 Did not find any huge discoveries in the 80’s but left
America with hope for cures for genetic disorders, and
other uses such as cloning and gene selection
Internet
 1982, Internet Protocol Suite (IPS) was standardized and
fully interconnected, this meant there was an actual “location”
where computers could connect to
 This brought about the TCP/IP which was the first server
where many computers could be connected at once, this
what was termed as the “internet”
 It was expanded to a supercomputer in 1986 which greatly
increased link speed and functionality
 ISP (Internet Service Providers) were added in the late 80’s
but was heavily restricted access by ARPANET and
NSFNET, these two were decommissioned in the 90’s which
is when the internet gained a commercial influx of people
Again, the internet was just beginning so it was
just a glimpse of what was to come in the near
future
The general public was amazed by what could be
done with the technology that was being
developed by the end of the 80’s
Columbia Spacecraft
 First space worthy shuttle in NASA’s fleet
 March 19, 1981 Columbia was scheduled to launch when
three workers were killed during the pre launch due to
Nitrogen Gas poisoning
 STS-1 the first launch mission was April 12th 1981 and
returned April 14th
 Two man mission, John Young, Robert Crippen
 Columbia saw a total of 28 missions, was briefly stopped
after the Challenger explosion
 The mission were stopped after the Columbia exploded
coming back to earth on February 1, 2003 where 7
astronauts were killed
 Overall the Columbia Missions gave high hopes of
greater space exploration through the late 80’s and 90’s
 More manned space crafts were launched because of the
success of the mission early on
 Space was just beginning to become a place of new
exploration and hope for the future
CD ROM
 Pre pressed compact discs that contained data accessible to
computers (written in binary code)
 Sony and Phillips in 1985 created the “yellow book” which
showed the format and code for CD ROMs and how the
binary code was used to write the disc’s information
 Finally a compact/easy to access way to store information
was available to the public and it was just the beginning,
DVD ‘s, Memory chips Etc.
Contact Lenses
 Throughout the 80’s, many oxygen-permeable lenses
were developed to replace the irritating non permeable
ones
 British Optometrist Rishi Agarwal a soft gel disposable
contact lens
 1980s - Developed with soft gel (hydrogel) that
degraded after about a days uses
 Increased permeability meant less durability which
turned into the disposable lens we see today
 More people could see without the hassle of using
prescription glasses
Windows OS
 November 20, 1985 – Windows 1.0 was released as an add
on to the MS-DOS platform OS
 It quickly overtook the Mac OS because of its focus on
Graphical User Interfaces or GUIs
 Windows 2.0 was released in 1987 with improvements in
user interface and memory usage/ more keyboard shortcuts
were added
 Both ran on top of MS-DOS which added the use of multiple
applications at on time (multitasking)
 Some of the basic apps included, calculator ,calendar,
cardfire, clipboard viewer, clock, control panel, notepad paint,
reversi, terminal, and write (word)
 Huge improvements to the home computer left people
wondering where the possibilities could lead to
 Being able to do so many different things on such a basic
looking object left the general population astounded
 Led to the connection to the internet which had the
possibility of connecting the whole world at one point (at
the time supercomputer)
History of the 1980’s
Fall of the Soviet Union
 The immediate cause of the Soviet collapse was economic
 Communist leaders of Warsaw Pact were losing power
 Soviet policy of glasnost was enforced
 Glasnost-permitting open discussion of political and social issues
within the Soviet Union
Fall of the Berlin Wall
 The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to completely cut off West Berlin
from East Berlin (West Germany: Democracy vs. East Germany:
Communism.)
 During this point of the Cold War (1989), the Soviet Union could no
longer maintain their Communist empire of eastern Europe
Fall of Berlin Wall
 On November 9, 1989,
governor Gunter Schabowski
announces the borders are
open between East and West
Berlin
 After hearing this, people
started to take out pieces of the
wall with hammers
 The pieces of the wall
represent trophies of victory for
democracy in the Cold War
Challenger Explosion
 To cut the cost of building rockets, NASA created the space
shuttle, the world’s first reusable spacecraft
 The shuttle had 7 crew members aboard who all tragically
died from the explosion
 One member included Christa McAuliffe, the 1st teacher to go to
space
 “I watched the Space Age being born, and I would like to
participate”-Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Challenger Explosion
 The Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986 on a
mission to carry cargo and observe Halley’s comet
 This would have been the spacecraft’s 25th mission,
10th launch
 The space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
due to a seal malfunction from the cold weather
After the Challenger
 The Challenger explosion questioned NASA’s abilities
 Shuttle missions did not resume until September 1988, two
years after the accident
 Challenger is known today as the worst disaster in NASA
history
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE
Vietnam Memorial
 Opened on November 13, 1982 following a week long
dedication to those who served in the war
 Was built because the Vietnam veterans were not welcomed
back from a war Americans felt we should not have been
involved in
AIDS
 Various reports of rare forms of cancer (Kaposi’s Sarcoma)
and pneumonia(Pneumocystis Pneumonia Carinii) began to
emerge from a small group of men
 The only connection between these men was the fact that
they were all homosexual
 More and more cases of the same diagnoses were reported
 Monthly, then weekly, then up to two per day
AIDS
 In 1982, the CDC (Center of Disease Control) named the
disease AIDS
 Acronym stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
 There was a high level of discrimination against groups such
as male homosexuals because there was limited knowledge
of the cause of AIDS and how it spreads
Ronald Reagan
 40th President of the United States from 1981-1989
 Wanted to restore “the great, confident roar of American
progress and growth and optimism”
 Pursued guidelines that emphasized individualism and a
reduction of reliance on government
 Carried out the political and economic policy,
Reaganomics
 Policy to contain communism in Soviet Union
Drugs during the 1980’s
 America was experiencing a “drug crisis”
 A specific drug of public concern was crack cocaine
 Increased gang wars and prenatal cocaine exposure
 Hard drugs started to move into the suburbs
 Improved anti-drug education programs started to form
 DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
Just Say No Campaign
 Campaign started by First Lady
Nancy Reagan to prevent children
from abusing illegal drugs
 Offered and educated ways to say
NO
 Spread her campaign by
appearing on talk shows,
recording public service
announcements, and writing guest
articles
Magic Johnson
 First overall in 1979
 Won 5 championships with Lakers
 Retired in 1991 after diagnosed
 Changed view on Aids
 Urged teens to practice safe sex
 Late 80’s teens were at a high risk
1980 summer games
 USA boycott
 Protest the Soviet Union war in Afghanistan
 Japan, West Germany, China, Philippines, Argentina, and
Canada all boycott
 Gave USSR ultimatum
 Many others did not participate in opening ceremony
1980 US Hockey
 Considered “Dream Team’’
 Gold Medal
 Defeated USSR
 Made up of College kids
 Considered one of the biggest upsets of all time
Michael Jordan
 Played College at UNC
 National Championship in 1982
 Joined Chicago Bulls in 1984
 1999 named greatest North American athlete in the 20th
century
 6 time NBA champion
Jerry Rice
 Played for San Francisco
 Considered greatest player of all time
 Drafted in 1985
 The Top 100: NFL greatest players named best player of all
time
Targets
 Identify the economic theory of “Reaganomics”
 Evaluate whether “Reaganomics” was successful in stimulating
the economy
 Summarize President Reagan’s approach to dealing with the
Soviet Union
 Peace through strength
Support military strength for peaceful purpose
Warming relations with Mikhail Gorbachev
 Relate the 1980 Olympics to events of the Cold War and explain
the boycott of the 1980 summer Olympics that was led by the U.S.
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Hosted by USSR in Moscow
USA protest of USSR invasion
Led by president Carter with ultimatum
Another competition between USA and USSR
Other countries boycotted with the USA
Gave America pride when USA men's hockey defeat USSR
Targets
 Explain the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
 In 1985 Gorbachev became in charge of the Soviet Union and during this
time they were facing economic decline.
 Gorbachev was a big reason why the Soviet Union was communist
country and on Dec. 25, 1991 Gorbacev resigned and in Jan. and the
Soviet Union ceased to exist.
 After the Soviet Union dissolved the Iron Curtain lifted and the Cod War
came to an end.
 Explain the Iran-Contra Affair and its impact on President Reagan’s
legacy
 Contras were the rebel army recruited, financed and armed by the CIA
who were fighting the soviet backed government in Nicaragua
 Senior Reagan administration officials, without Reagan’s consent, started
the sale of arms to Iran in hopes of a release of US hostages as well as
start a funds that would be used to supply the Contras
 Even though Reagan was found not guilty of any affiliation with the affair,
he was criticized for loose White House management, Also the public had
another reason to stop trusting the government