1980’s

The 1980s are sometimes referred to as the Decade of Excess.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the 1980’s

  • Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika began the end of the Cold War.
  • The eruption of Mount St. Helens.
  • The oil spill of the Exxon Valdez.
  • The Ethiopian famine.
  • AIDS.
  • Rubik’s Cube.
  • Pac-Man video game.
  • Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • Julie Krejci got Married.