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“1981-1989 a new world”
Answer the following questions as you view the video!
1. Why was the Vietnam War Memorial so controversial?
2. How did the assassination attempt on Reagan affect his status in America?
3. How did illegal drugs change
urban America?
Why did drug dealing become so
glamorous?
4. What were the “yuppies”?
What were corporate raiders?
5. How did American confidence come through the space shuttle?
6. How did computers change the 1980’s?
7. Why was Christa McAuliffe so
important?
How did her tragedy impact the
nation?
8. What new forms of entertainment were evident on television in the 80’s?
9. How did AIDS impact America in
the 1980’s?
How did Ally Gertz “change the
face” of AIDS?
10. How did Reagan view the Cold
War Struggle?
What was his plan to neutralize the
communists?
11. What did we learn from the hijacking of the TWA flight 847 in Greece?
12. Why did Reagan’s popularity start to drop?
13. Why was the Soviet Union so optimistic in the mid-1980’s?
14. What were Reagan and Gorbachev negotiating for?
15. Describe Gorbachev’s visit to
America:
Why was it so important?
16. What happened in China in
1989?
What did we learn from that
incident?
17. What was going on behind the
Iron Curtain in the 1980’s?
What action became the symbol for
the decline of communism in Eastern
Europe?