1980's Decade Project
The Generation of ME!
Politics
Political Aspect
"Star Wars" Plan
Iran Hostage Crisis
Social Aspect
Challenger Disaster
IBM Creates the First Personal Computer
Discovery of HIV/AIDS
Mt. St. Helens Erupted
Moral Aspect
U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
Works Cited
"U.S. Bombs Libya." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"March 23, 1983: Reagan Taunts the Russians With 'Star Wars' Plan." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
Music
"What Is 80's Music?" WiseGEEK. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. "Music Played in the 1980's Popular Music From the 80s." 1980's Music Played in the 80's Bands Groups Singers Memories from The People History Site. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. "1980s in Music." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 May 2013. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. "Music History of the United States in the 1980s." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 May 2013. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
Art, Literature, and Photography
FASHION
Women
Snap Bracelets & Jelly Shoes
Men
The men during this decade wore T-shirts under a Sports coat. They wore this with linen parts and a pair of penny loafers or doc martens and a nice pair of ray ban sunglasses. The younger men during this time enjoyed wearing a pair of Reebok pumps as well.
American dream
Moral aspect
Social aspect
Political aspect
Ronald Reagan was no man to mess with during the 80's. As tensions grew stronger between the U.S. and the Soviet Union Ronald Reagan stayed strong. He was one of the major causes for the end of the Cold War.
Works Cited
06, September. "Los Angeles Times." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 06 Sept. 2009. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"The Great 80s." 80s Fashion. ©2010 The Great 80s Website, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"Greatest Fashion Trends of the 80s and 90s." Atom. © 2006-2013 Cozi, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Cozi and the Cozi Logo Are Registered or Unregistered Trademarks of Cozi, Inc. in the USA., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"Top 10 80s Fashion Trends." : The Good, Bad and Ugly. Denning E-solutions, LLC, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
Cinema & Celebrity
Social Aspect
The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. The "core" members are Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The term "Brat Pack", a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and 1960s, was first popularized in a 1985 New York magazine cover story, which described a group of highly successful film stars in their early twenties.
But they're already rich and famous. They're what kids want to see and what kids want to be.
Movies and television became socially accepted to be more provocative and outrageous. The "okay" for television became looser then previous decades with more mature themes within them. Actors and actresses also seemed to have looser morals with more known drug abuse and partying for them.
American Dream
During this decade was known as the "ME" generation, which was to be an individual and to be successful such as the yuppies and actors of this time showed their individuality greatly.
Rolling Stones magazine cover
The Simpsons
the soap opera Dallas
Works Cited
"The 1980 News and Events. Brought to You by Triplets and Us." The 1980 News and Events. Brought to You by Triplets and Us. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"80s Movies & 80s TV." 1980s Movies and TV on Like Totally 80s. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"New York Magazine." The Birth of Hollywood's Brat Pack --. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2013.
"American Cinema of the 1980s." Project MUSE -. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2013.
"Television in the 1980s." Television in the 1980s. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.