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The 1980s & 90s


MTV
The 80s and 90s on YouTube
The Macarena Dance
Read My Lips - George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush - American Idiot

To the 1990s

The 1980s
To Outline

Links:
80s.com
Reagan's Domestic Policy
Reaganomics
Ronald Reagan Biography
Reagan's Foreign Policy
Reagan and the Cold War
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Ronald Reagan - Insane Anglo Warlord
Ronald Reagan - The Bonzo Years
George Bush - The Unauthorized Biography
Junk Bonds
Biography of Walter Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro
Sandinistas Face the Future
Oliver North and Iran-Contra
Corazon Aquino
Soviet Archives Exhibit especially Perestroika
Library of Congress - Revelations of the Russian Archives
Perestroika - A Marxist Critique
Intermediate Nuclear Force Chronology
INF Treaty
Michael Dukakis Profile
Election of 1988
Presidential Election of 1988
Dukakis and Willie Horton
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Dan Quayle Center and Museum
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Chronology
Nuclear Treaties Chronology
The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
The 1990s
Bill Clinton
Clinton Library
Clinton Presidential Center
Hillary Clinton
Greatest Films of the 1990s
Inthe90s.com
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall
The Baltic Republics
Saddam Hussein
1996 Speech by Saddam Hussein
A Politics for Generation X
H. Ross Perot
Reform Party
Interview with Richard Hatcher
2000 and beyond
George Bush Jr.'s Skeleton Closet
Gulf War Resources
George Bush Presidential Center
Bushisms
George W. Bush
George Bush on the Issues
Al Gore - Nobel Prize
To the 21st Century

1980s Outline

I. The Reagan Revolution
A. The Origins of 80s Conservatism
B. Reagan's Policies Shape American Politics
C. The Truth About the 1980s Economy
D. The 1984 Election
E. The Iran-Contra Affair

II. The End of the Cold War
A. The Reagan Doctrine and the New Cold War
B. Mikhail Gorbachev
C. Reagan & Gorbachev
D. The Revolution of 1989 and the Collapse of the Berlin Wall

III. Science and Society
A. Discovery of HIV/AIDS
B. The War on Drugs
C. The Personal Computer Revolution
D. The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
E. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

IV. Culture and Entertainment
A. Pop Culture for the 80s
B. Pop Music of the 80s
C. The "Yuppies"
D. The Vietnam Legacy

Source: The 1980s, James D. Torr, ed.


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