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It has been the most popular game show since 1984. Pat Sajak and Vanna White have been the hosts of the show since its first episode. Wheel of Fortune is important to the 1980’s because it was one of the most popular game shows on television and is still aired today. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_%28US_game_show%29
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Sally Ride  **  was    27 years old when she became the first American woman on the shuttle Challenger. She opted to be an astronaut instead of a professional tennis player because to her, education meant everything. She became an astronaut after applying to an add she saw in the newspaper and she was 1 in 1000 to be chosen. At the time she was the youngest American to go to space. Sally Ride’s mission to space is an important event that occurred in the 1980’s because she made the path for other women to follow what she had already done.  http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/ride.html


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Heavy Metal Suicide **  is about lawsuits made against the members of Judas Priest, and Ozzy Osborne. According to parents, the lyrics in theirs music contained subliminal messages that caused their children to commit suicide. The judges decided that it was impossible to prove subliminal messages, and they were acquitted on all charges. This is a significant event in the 1980’s because heavy metal was a new thing, and it was causing a lot of controversy.  http://metalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/judas_priest_and_metal_on_trial


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Homeless Vets **resulted after the Vietnam War. People viewed these vets as crazy, heartless, homeless, and drug addicted. It wasn’t until the 1980’s that they got recognized for what they actually did, and were appreciated as soldiers. http://www.school-for-champions.com/history/start_fire_facts.htm





Foreign Debts **were an issue in the 1980’s because they were causing inflation. They also caused higher taxes for American Citizens. Farmers were hit the hardest, their exports declined, crops sold for lesser value and interest rates rose. [|http://www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/ebook2/contents/part1-V.shtml



**Aids**- were first known as an unnamed disease and in the early 1980 it mostly affected young gay men.By 1983 women were also coming in with symptoms. Aid was becoming a major problem the number of people with aids grew from 225 to 40,000 in the 1980’s people had to change there life styles to help prevent from getting the disease. Today’sit still an issue they haven’t found a cure but they have made developments to slow down the disease. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS

Crack ** became a very popular in the 1980’s. It’s the solid form of cocaine that is smokeable. Crack became popular because it was cheap and widely available. There was so much drug abuse that there was actually a “crack epidemic” resulting in crack houses all over the country and violence. This epidemic caused a panic after the hippie revolution because most people thought it was over. President Regan wanted to combat the “ War on Drugs” therefore he signed a bill in 1987 granting 1.7 million dollars to fight drug abuse and create mandatory punishment for any offense. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Administration#.22War_on_Drugs.22)
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BERNIE GOETZ - shot four teenagers on the subway because they asked him for five dollars, after shooting them he rented a car and drove to Bennington, Vermont, where he got rid of the pistol and the shirt he was wearing in the woods. People started wearing thug buster tee shirts because they wanted him to have an acquittal. The people that rode the subway started collecting money for a defense for Goetz. But he refused to take the money. He was found not guilty; they said that he had acted responsible. After he was sued for 50 million dollars for the damages made to one of the victims who was paralyzed and had brain damage because of the shooting. http://www.heroism.org/class/1980/goetz.htm