(Break Dancing)

 From Wikpedia

1) Was a dance movement/craze which started in 1980

2) Was originally called B-Boying in the 70's

3) Was made popular by the movies "Beatstreet" and Breaking"

4) Was used as a tool by breakers to settle/squash arguements

(Cabbage Patch Kids)

Found in Wikpedia

1)The dolls were manufactured by the Coleco Co.in 1982

2) They were originally called "Little People"

3)They were originally created by an art student

"Xavier Roberts"

4) The first known doll was named "Haililey Theeuwen"

(Disasters)

Information found in WIKPEDIA

1)Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, U.S. on May 18, 1980, killing 57 people.

2)On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was carrying 269 people.

3)In 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after launch, killing all of the crew onboard.

4)In 1986, the Chernobyl disaster, a large-scale nuclear meltdown in the Ukrainian SSR,

(E.T. The Extraterrestrial)

Information found at IMDB

1)Was released in 1982

2) Was a movie about a lost alien stranded on planet earth

3) He was found by a little boy named elliott who took care of him

4)E.T. and Elliot go on an adventure to get E.T. back to his planet

5) In the 80's it made the phrase "E.T. Phone Home.

(Fashion)

information found in Wikpedia

1) The beginning of the decade was marked by the New Romantic movement and later by fashion inspired by heavy metal bands, including teased hair, ripped jeans and neon clothing. Some clothing and mens hairstyles had influences from the 1950s, especially in the first part of the decade.

2) Significant hairstyle trends of the 1980s include the Perm (started popularity in the late 1970s), the mullet

3)Members Only Jackets, Skin-tight acid-washed jeans, Miniskirts, Leggings and Leg warmers

4)Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses  Swatch watches, Slap bracelets

(Ghost Busters)

Information found in IMDB

1) Released in 1984

2) It's about 4 out of work professors who creat Ghost Busters to get rid of ghosts.

3) It is a science fiction comedy

4) It was the 32nd biggest grossing film in U.S. History

5) The film made 238 Million dollars in the U.S.

(Hair Bands)

Information found in wikpedia

1)Glam metal (also known as hair metal^[3]  is a subgenre of hard rock^[3] and heavy metal that arose in the early 1980s

2) It was popular throughout the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s

3) Allmusic refers to glam metal as "hair metal", whose characteristics are flashy clothing and heavy makeup (as embodied by Poison, Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe),

4)Hair metal is a derogatory, derisive umbrella term encompassing the whole 1980s glam metal scene;

(Indiana Jones)

Information found in IMDB

1) First released in 1981

2) A movie by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas

3)Its about an Archeologist and adventurer

4) Indiana Jones is played by Harrison Ford

5)In 2003 he was ranked as the 2nd greatest movie hero of all time

(Jumpsuits)

information found in Like totally 80's .com

1) The 80's really jumped into jumpsuits

2) They were made popular by the band "DEVO" with the song/video "Whip it"

3)The jumpsuits were titled the industrial fashion

4) They were also made popular by the movie "Valley Girl"

(Karate Kid)

Information found in IMDB

1)Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California

2) A handyman/martial arts master Mister Myagi agrees to teach bullied Daniel martial arts

3) Released in 1984

4)Daniel gets beaten by several bullies over a girl

5) He ends up getting the girl, winning a tournement and making a best friend

(Lost Boys)

information found in IMDB 

1) Was a 1987 teen comedy horror film

2) Its about two brothers who move to a new town crawling with a gang of vampires

3) The movie made over 32 million dollars

4) It was directed by Joel Schumacher

5) "Sleep All Day Party All Night, Its Fun To Be A VAmpire"

(Music)

Information found in Wikpedia

1) In the First World, this decade saw the emergence of pop and dance music

2)As the term disco fell out of fashion by the early part of the decade

3) in the 1980s. Rock music was also very popular throughout the decade, especially New Wave,^[2] soft rock,^[3] and glam metal

4) Several major electronic genres were born during the 1980s, such as electro, techno, house, freestyle

(Nuclear Threats)

Information found in Wikpedia

1)Operation Opera - a 1981 surprise Israeli air strike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor being constructed in Osirak.

2)Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.

3)Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor before it would be loaded with nuclear fuel.

4)President Reagan's decision to station intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe

(Oscar Winners)

Information found in WIKPEDIA

1. Ordinary People (1980),
2. Chariots of Fire (1981),
3. Gandhi (1982),
4. Terms of Endearment (1983
5. Amadeus (1984),
6. Out of Africa (1985),

(Prominent political events)

Information found in WIKPEDIA

1. Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. President in 1980
2. The Reagan Administration accelerated the War on Drugs, publicized through anti-drug campaigns including the Just Say No campaign of First Lady Nancy Reagan.
3. Military dictatorships give way to democracy in Argentina (1983), Uruguay (1984–5), Brazil (1985–8) and Chile (1988–9).
5. Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985

(Q-Bert)

video game information found in simply eighties

1. Q bert was an eighties video game.
2.  It was manufactured by Nintendo.
3. The main character would jump on blocks to change the colors of them.