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Join ABC News on a voyage through one of the most turbulent, and perhaps the most provocative decades in the 20th century.The History Of The 80s is a dramatic and enlightening program that revisits the events, places, and profiles that created headlines and shaped history. Topics included on each disc are world events, people, entertainment, sports, science, and technology.
Disc 1 (1980-1982) Iran hostage crisis U.S. Olympic hockey victory Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Solidarity in Poland Chrysler Bailout John Lennon assassination Hostages released Reagan inaugurated MTV Reagan and Pop John Paul II assassination attempts PCs and VCRs Charles and Diana's wedding AIDS Vietnam Memorial Israeli invasion of Lebanon Tylenol poisonings Anti-nuclear protest Artificial heart implanted
Disc 2 (1983-1985) U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe Granada invasion Education report Star Wars Aquino assassination Bhopal disaster Central America Presidential campaigns Los Angeles Olympics Bernard Goetz Indira Ghandi assassination Iran-Iraq War Gorbachev assumes power Live Aid/Farm Aid concerts Terrorism Apartheid in South Africa Crack Contras AIDS U.S. buyouts of corporations
Disc 3 (1986-1989) Challenger disaster Iceland Summit Oliver North Chernobyl nuclear accident Homeless in America Statue of Liberty Centennial Kurt Waldheim US bombs Libya Wall Street crash AIDS Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker Papal visit to Poland Iran-Contra Affair 200th anniversary of US Constitution Reagan and Gorbachev Navy in the Persian Gulf Pan Am Flight 103 Wall Street buyouts PLO renounces terrorism Benazir Bhutto Berlin Wall Manuel Noriega Exxon Valdez War on drugs Chinese student protests Romania S&L crisis Bush
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