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The 1980s in America

Table of Contents

Aboriginal rights in Canada




Abortion




Abscam




Academy Awards




ACT UP




Action films




Bryan Adams




Advertising




Aerobics




Affirmative action




Africa and the United States




African Americans




Age discrimination




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




AIDS epidemic




AIDS Memorial Quilt




Air India Flight 182 bombing




Air pollution




Air traffic controllers’ strike




Airplane!




Aliens




Alternative medicine




America’s Most Wanted




Terry Anderson




Androgyny




Apple Computer




Archaeology




Architecture




Arena Football League




Art movements




Artificial heart




Asian Americans




Aspartame




Astronomy




AT&T breakup




Atlanta child murders




Lee Atwater




Jean M. Auel




Baby Fae heart transplantation




Baby Jessica rescue




Back to the Future




Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker




Ballet




Baseball




Baseball strike of 1981




Basketball




Jean-Michel Basquiat




Ann Beattie




Beirut bombings




Beloved




William Bennett




Lloyd Bentsen




Alan Berg




Berlin Wall




The Big Chill




Bioengineering




Biological clock




Biopesticides




Larry Bird




Black Monday stock market crash




Blade Runner




Blondie




Bloom County




Blue Velvet




Boat people




Brian Boitano




Bon Jovi




The Bonfire of the Vanities




William Bonin




Book publishing




Robert H. Bork




Robert Bourassa




Bowers v. Hardwick




Boxing




Boy George and Culture Club




T. Coraghessan Boyle




Brat Pack in acting




Brat Pack in literature




Tawana Brawley




Break dancing




The Breakfast Club




George Brett




Jeff Bridges




Broadway musicals




Matthew Broderick




Tom Brokaw




George H. W. Bush




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Cabbage Patch Kids




Cable television




CAD/CAM technology




Caffeine




Cagney and Lacey




Camcorders




Canada Act of 1982




Canada and the British Commonwealth




Canada and the United States




Canada Health Act of 1984




Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement




Canadian Caper




Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms




Cancer research




Car alarms




Cats




Cell phones




Central Park jogger case




Cerritos plane crash




Challenger disaster




Cheers




Cher




Children’s literature




Children’s television




China and the United States




Jean Chrétien




Chrysler Corporation federal rescue




Harry E. Claiborne




Tom Clancy




Classical music




Glenn Close




The Closing of the American Mind




CNN




Cold Sunday




Cold War




The Color Purple




Colorization of black-and-white films




Comedians




Comic Relief




Comic strips




Compact discs (CDs)




Computers




Conch Republic




A Confederacy of Dunces




U.S. Congress




Congressional page sex scandal




Conservatism in U.S. politics




Consumerism




The Cosby Show




Cosmos




Kevin Costner




Country music




Crack epidemic




Christine Craft




Crime




Tom Cruise




Cyberpunk literature




Dallas




Popular dance




Robertson Davies




The Day After




Mary Decker




Deconstructivist architecture




John De Lorean




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Designing Women




Devo




Diets




Disability rights movement




Disposable cameras




DNA fingerprinting




Do the Right Thing




Domestic violence




Doppler radar




Michael Douglas




Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)




Michael Dukakis




Dupont Plaza Hotel fire




Duran Duran




Andrea Dworkin




Dynasty




École Polytechnique massacre




Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




El Niño




Elections in Canada




Midterm elections in the United States




1980 Elections in the United States




1984 Elections in the United States




1988 Elections in the United States




John Elway




The Empire Strikes Back




Environmental movement




Epic films




Louise Erdrich




E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial




Europe and North America




Evangelical Lutheran Church in America




Exxon Valdez oil spill




The Facts of Life




Fads




Jerry Falwell




Family Ties




Farm Aid




Farm crisis




Fashions and clothing




Fast Times at Ridgemont High




Fatal Attraction




Fax machines




Feminism




Geraldine Ferraro




Fetal medicine




Film in Canada




Film in the United States




Flag burning




Flashdance




Larry Flynt




Food Security Act of 1985




Food trends




Football




Harrison Ford




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




401(k) plans




Michael J. Fox




FOX network




Full Metal Jacket




Gallagher




Gallaudet University protests




Gangs




Marc Garneau




Frank Gehry




Gender gap in voting




General Hospital




Generation X




Genetics research




Gentrification




Richard Gere




Ghostbusters




Kirk Gibson




Mel Gibson




William Gibson




Gimli Glider




Philip Glass




Glass ceiling




Globalization




The Go-Go’s




Bernhard Goetz




The Golden Girls




Goldmark murders




Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986




Golf




Goodwill Games of 1986




Amy Grant




Grenada invasion




Wayne Gretzky




Florence Griffith-Joyner




Guns n’ Roses




Alexander Haig




Hairstyles




Halley’s comet




The Handmaid’s Tale




Hands Across America




Daryl Hannah




Harp seal hunting




Gary Hart




Yusef Hawkins




Health care in Canada




Health care in the United States




Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)




Heat wave of 1980




Heaven’s Gate




Heavy metal




The Heidi Chronicles




Beth Henley




Heritage USA




Pee-Wee Herman




Orel Hershiser




Hill Street Blues




Hip-hop and rap




Hobbies and recreation




Hockey




Dustin Hoffman




Larry Holmes




Home shopping channels




Home video rentals




Homelessness




Homosexuality and gay rights




Horror films




William Horton




Whitney Houston




Howard Beach incident




L. Ron Hubbard




Rock Hudson




John Hughes




Hurricane Hugo




William Hurt




Hustler Magazine v. Falwell




David Henry Hwang




Lee Iacocca




Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




Income and wages in Canada




Income and wages in the United States




Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988




Inflation in Canada




Inflation in the United States




Infomercials




Information age




Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty




Inventions




Iran-Contra affair




Iranian hostage crisis




John Irving




Israel and the United States




Bo Jackson




Jesse Jackson




Michael Jackson




Japan and North America




Jazz




Peter Jennings




Jewish Americans




Magic Johnson




Journalism




Journey




The Joy Luck Club




Junk bonds




Just Say No campaign




Garrison Keillor




Jamaica Kincaid




Stephen King




Jeane Kirkpatrick




Kiss of the Spider Woman




Leon Klinghoffer




Knoxville World’s Fair




C. Everett Koop




L.A. Law




Lyndon LaRouche




The Last Temptation of Christ




Latin America




Latinos




Cyndi Lauper




Leg warmers




Mario Lemieux




Greg LeMond




John Lennon




Sugar Ray Leonard




David Letterman




René Lévesque




Carl Lewis




Liberalism in U.S. politics




Libya bombing




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




The Little Mermaid




Live Aid




Loma Prieta earthquake




Greg Louganis




Louisiana World Exposition




Henry Lee Lucas




Robert Ludlum




John McEnroe




McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987




McMartin Preschool trials




Madonna




Magnet schools




P.I. Magnum




Mainstreaming in education




Malathion spraying




David Mamet




Marathon of Hope




Mariel boatlift




Marriage and divorce




Married . . . with Children




Martial arts




Steve Martin




Martin Luther King Day




M*A*S*H series finale




Max Headroom




Medicine




Meech Lake Accord




Edwin Meese III




Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson




Mexico and the United States




MGM Grand Hotel fire




Miami Riot of 1980




Miami Vice




George Michael




Microsoft




Middle East and North America




Military ban on homosexuals




Military spending




Sue Miller




Minimalist literature




Miniseries




Minivans




Minorities in Canada




Miracle on Ice




Missing and runaway children




Mommy track




Walter Mondale




Joe Montana




Moonlighting




Moral Majority




Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)




M”tley Cre




Mount St. Helens eruption




MOVE




Mr. T




MTV




Mullet




Brian Mulroney




Multiculturalism in education




Multiplex theaters




Eddie Murphy




Bill Murray




Music




Music videos




A Nation at Risk




Nation of Yahweh




National Anthem Act of 1980




National Education Summit of 1989




National Energy Program




National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984




Native Americans




Natural disasters




Martina Navratilova




Gloria Naylor




Neoexpressionism in painting




Network anchors




New Coke




New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot




New Wave music




Jack Nicholson




Night Stalker case




Nobel Prizes




Oliver North




Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982




Nuclear winter scenario




Joyce Carol Oates




Ocean Ranger oil rig disaster




Sandra Day O’Connor




Clifford Olson




Olympic boycotts




Olympic Games of 1980




Olympic Games of 1984




Olympic Games of 1988




On Golden Pond




Tip O’Neill




Ordinary People




Organized crime




Ozzy Osbourne




Ozone hole




Pac-Man




Pan Am Flight 103 bombing




Panama invasion




Parental advisory stickers




Jane Pauley




I. M. Pei




Clara Peller




The People’s Court




Performance art




PG-13 rating




The Phantom of the Opera




Photography




Plastic surgery




Platoon




The Play




Poetry




John Poindexter




Political correctness




Pop music




Pornography




Post office shootings




Power dressing




Preppies




Prince




Prozac




Psychology




Public Enemy




Dan Quayle




Quebec English sign ban




Quebec referendum of 1980




Racial discrimination




Radon




Raging Bull




Raiders of the Lost Ark




Rambo




Rape




Dan Rather




Nancy Reagan




Ronald Reagan




Reagan assassination attempt




Reagan Democrats




Reagan Doctrine




Reagan Revolution




Reaganomics




Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech




Recessions




Donald Regan




William H. Rehnquist




Religion and spirituality in Canada




Religion and spirituality in the United States




R.E.M.




Mary Lou Retton




Reykjavik Summit




Jerry Rice




Lionel Richie




Mordecai Richler




Sally Ride




Geraldo Rivera




Roberts v. United States Jaycees




Pat Robertson




RoboCop




Robots




Rock and Roll Hall of Fame




Pete Rose




Run-D.M.C.




Nolan Ryan




St. Elsewhere




San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre




Jeanne Sauvé




Savings and loan (S&L) crisis




Scandals




Julian Schnabel




School vouchers debate




Edward Schreyer




Pat Schroeder




Arnold Schwarzenegger




Science and technology




Science-fiction films




Martin Scorsese




Sequels




SETI Institute




sex, lies, and videotape




Sexual harassment




Shamrock Summit




Sam Shepard




Brooke Shields




George P. Shultz




Richard Simmons




Sioux City plane crash




Sitcoms




Skinheads and neo-Nazis




SkyDome




Slang and slogans




Samantha Smith




Smoking and tobacco




Soap operas




Soccer




Social Security reform




Soviet Union and North America




Space exploration




Space shuttle program




Special effects




Steven Spielberg




Sports




Spotted owl controversy




Bruce Springsteen




Standards and accountability in education




Star Search




Star Trek: The Next Generation




Starbucks




Statue of Liberty restoration and centennial




Stealth fighter




Danielle Steel




Sting




Stockton massacre




Oliver Stone




Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)




Meryl Streep




John H. Sununu




Superconductors




Superfund program




Supreme Court decisions




Jimmy Swaggart




Synthesizers




Tabloid television




Talk shows




Talking Heads




Tamper-proof packaging




Tanner ’88




Tax Reform Act of 1986




Lawrence Taylor




Teen films




Teen singers




Televangelism




Television




Tennis




The Terminator




Terms of Endearment




Terrorism




Theater




The Third Wave




thirtysomething




This Is Spin al Tap




Isiah Thomas




Thompson v. Oklahoma




Times Beach dioxin scare




Titanic wreck discovery




Torch Song Trilogy




Toronto bathhouse raids of 1981




Tort reform movement




Tower Commission




Toys and games




Transplantation




Trivial Pursuit




Tron




Pierre Trudeau




John Turner




Kathleen Turner




Ted Turner




Tina Turner




Twilight Zone accident




Tylenol murders




Anne Tyler




Mike Tyson




Peter Ueberroth




Unemployment in Canada




Unemployment in the United States




Unions




United Nations




US Festivals




U.S. Senate bombing




USA for Africa




USA Today




USS Stark incident




USS Vincennes incident




U2




Fernando Valenzuela




Valley girls




Van Halen




Vancouver Expo ’86




Vangelis




Video games and arcades




Vietnam Veterans Memorial




Virtual reality




Voicemail




Voyager global flight




Wall Street




Harold Washington




Water pollution




Tom Watson




James G. Watt




The Wave




Sigourney Weaver




Webster v. Reproductive Health Services




Caspar Weinberger




Welfare




West Berlin discotheque bombing




When Harry Met Sally . . .




Ryan White




White Noise




Who Framed Roger Rabbit




Robin Williams




Vanessa Williams




August Wilson




Oprah Winfrey




Women in rock music




Women in the workforce




Women’s rights




The Wonder Years




World music




World Wrestling Federation




Jim Wright




Xanadu Houses




Weird Al Yankovic




Yellowstone National Park fires




Yuppies




John Cougar Mellencamp




Major Films of the 1980’s




Academy Awards of the 1980’s




Major Broadway Plays and Awards of the 1980’s




Most-Watched U.S. Television Shows of the 1980’s




Emmy Awards of the 1980’s




Major U.S. Legislation of the 1980’s




U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in the 1980’s




Best-Selling U.S. Books in the 1980’s




Major Literary Awards in the 1980’s




Grammy Awards of the 1980’s




Winners of Major Sports Events in the 1980’s




Time Line of the 1980’s in America




Bibliography




Web Sites




Glossary of Popular Terminology of the 1980’s




Music: Popular Musicians of the 1980’s




Publisher’s Note