The 1980’s

A Decade in review(:

MOUNT St. Helens

• At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and blew down or scorched 230 square miles of forest

U.S Hockey Team beat Russia in the Olympic Game

• We beat the U.S hockey team agents Russia.

John lennon

• Was assassinated and was the leader of theBeetles.

Sandra Day O’ Connor

• Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court in 1981.

MTV

• MTV was the first music channel.

Iran-control Affair

• The Iran-Contra Affair was a clandestine action not approved of by the United States Congress. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran

Assassination Attempt of Reagan

• The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the in Washington, D.C.

Thriller

• The longest most educated video. (14min) long.

Liposuction

• Liposuction is where you get fat tookinout of a certain part of your body.

Cocaine

• Cocaine is an illegal drug that is used to be smoked.

South Korean Flight 007

• It was a flight that flew in the air and possibly never came back.

Sally Ride

• Dr. Ride applied to the astronaut program after reading an ad in a newspaper. More than 8,000 men and women applied to the space program that year. Of the 35 individuals accepted, six were women. One was Sally Ride.

Beirut terrorist attack

• The Beirut barracks bombing, October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.

CD’s

• Was the first portable compact disc.

Olympics in los Angeles

• It was in the 1984 Olympics, held in los Angeles,

Vanessa Williamas

• The First black supermodel, in the U.S history.

We Are the World

We are the world Was song that was song by, Michael Jackson in 1980

Crack Cocaine

• Crack cocaine is a type of drug that can be snorted.

Len Bias

• Bias impressed basketball fans with his amazing leaping ability, his physical stature and his ability to create plays and was considered one of the most dynamic players in the nation, and also O.d

On cocaine.

Nintendo

• This was the firs hand held device in the 1980’s

Challenger Disaster

• This rocket blew up in thin air, and held a teacher.

AIDS

• AID’s is a result of HIV, and I sun curable.

Supermodel GIA

• Was a supermodel that died of drug overdose and aids.

“baby Jessica”

• Baby Jessica was thrown down a well and servived.

Micheal Dukakis

• He inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history.

Soviets leave Afghanistan

• Soviets leaving Afghanistan was in 1985, when we agreed to trade guns with the Afghanis to get our hostages back.

Fashion of the times!

• This was the way the fashion was in the 1980.

Famous movies

• These were some of the movies that they made and watched.