Table of Contents
People
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bon Jovi
Cyndi Lauper
Deng Xiaoping
Jackie Chan
John Hughes
Madonna
Magic Johnson
Margaret Thatcher
Michael J. Fox
Michael Jackson (“Thriller” album)
Mike Tyson
Mikhail Gorbachev
Molly Ringwald
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Prince
Ronald Reagan
Steven Spielberg
Tim Berners Lee
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Whitney Houston
Historical Events
AIDS epidemic
Bhopal disaster
‘Black Monday’ stock market crash
Capitalism
Challenger disaster (space shuttle)
Chernobyl
Cold War
Decolonization
Exxon Valdez oil spill
Falklands War
Fall of communism
Fall of the Berlin Wall
First Intifada (on the Gaza Strip/West Bank)
Glasnost and perestroika (Soviet reforms towards openness)
Halley’s Comet
Iran-Contra affair
Iran-Iraq War
Iron Curtain
John Lennon’s assassination
Live Aid concert
Mexico City earthquake
Mir space station
Mount St. Helens eruption
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Superpowers
Tiananmen Square protests
Velvet Revolution (Czechoslovakia)
War on Drugs (US)
Inventions/Innovations
Apple Macintosh
CDs
Commodore 64
DeLorean car
First gene therapy
Genetically modified crops (the start of)
Gestational/biological surrogacy (the start of)
IBM PCs
Internet
Microsoft Windows
Personal computer (widespread adoption)
Space shuttles
World Wide Web (the start of)
Pop Culture (music, movies, etc)
“A Nightmare on Elm Street”
AC/DC
“Aliens” movie
B horror movies
“Back to the Future”
“Beetlejuice”
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”
Brat Pack movies
“The Breakfast Club”
“Dirty Dancing”
Donkey Kong
“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
“Footloose”
“Ghostbusters”
Hip hop
“Indiana Jones”
MTV
Music videos
New wave music
Nintendo
Pac-Man
“Poltergeist”
Rubik’s Cube
“Star Wars”
Studio Ghibli
Super Mario Bros video games
Synthesizer music
“The Terminator”
Tetris
U2
Fashion
Big hair
Moonwalk dance
Mullet
Perms
Shoulder pads