History of the 80‘s

An ABC News special presentation taking a voyage through one of the most turbulent and provocative decades of the past century. This dramatic 10-part series revisits the events, the people and the places that created headlines and shaped history.1980Includes: Iran hostage crisis • U.S. Hockey victory • Soviets invade Afghanistan • Mount St. Helens • Love Canal • Polish solidarity • Chrysler bailout.1981Includes: Iran hostages released • Ronald Reagan inaugurated • MTV • assassination attempts against Reagan and the Pope • PCs &VCRs • Charles &Diana • AIDS • Anwar Sadat assassination.1982Includes: Vietnam memorial • Falkland Islands war • ERA defeat • Israeli invasion of Lebanon • Tylenol poisonings • Anti-nuclear protest • Artificial heart implanted • Poland.1983Includes: U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe • Grenada invasion • education report • Star Wars • Beningo Aquino assassination • firsts in America • U.S. Embassy/Marine barracks bombed.1984Includes: Bhopal disa