1980s
Cold War eighties
The 1980s are the decade from 1980 to 1989.
The term evokes a distinct cultural era: Reagan, Thatcher, MTV, synthesizers, big hair, and Cold War anxieties.
That song is so 1980s.
Like other decade terms, it works as noun or adjective: She grew up in the 1980s, 1980s fashion is making a comeback.
Also written as eighties or '80s.
Youth-oriented video network
- WalkmanPortable personal cassette player
- VHSAnalog tape format
- breakdancingAcrobatic hip-hop dance form
- yuppiesMaterialistic city professionals
Pac-Man · Rubik's Cube · glam metal · aerobics · mullets · shoulder pads · leg warmers · scrunchies
Individual-use computing machine
- Commodore 64Popular 1982 home computer
- AtariSeventies gaming pioneer
- NintendoJapanese video game company
- floppy diskFlexible magnetic storage medium
dot matrix printer · camcorder · car phone · cassette tape · boombox · Betamax · LaserDisc · MS-DOS
Informal song compilation
- arcadeArched passageway or gaming hall
- boomboxPortable stereo with speakers
- ALFShortened extraterrestrial term
- E.T.Extraterrestrial being
Gremlins · Top Gun · Ghostbusters · Back to the Future · Ferris Bueller · Transformers · He-Man · Care Bears
Supply-side fiscal philosophy
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
- ThatcherismBritish free-market conservatism
Iran-Contra · Berlin Wall · Solidarity · apartheid · Falklands War · nuclear arms race · Sandinistas · Gorbachev
Soviet nuclear disaster site
- Challenger disasterShuttle destroyed during ascent
- AIDS crisisHIV epidemic's deadly peak
- Exxon ValdezGrounded supertanker, 1989
- Live AidMulti-venue famine benefit concerts
Tiananmen Square · Black Monday · Mount St. Helens · Hillsborough
Opposed to atomic energy
- Live AidMulti-venue famine benefit concerts
- ACT UPHIV/AIDS direct-action organization
- GreenpeaceEnvironmental activism organization
- anti-apartheidOpposing racial segregation policy
Free Mandela · pro-democracy · hunger strikes · We Are the World · consciousness raising · divestment · sanctuary movement · environmentalism
MTV
Youth-oriented video network
- WalkmanPortable personal cassette player
- VHSAnalog tape format
- breakdancingAcrobatic hip-hop dance form
yuppies · Pac-Man · Rubik's Cube · glam metal · aerobics · mullets · shoulder pads · leg warmers · scrunchies · parachute pants
personal computer
Individual-use computing machine
- Commodore 64Popular 1982 home computer
- AtariSeventies gaming pioneer
- NintendoJapanese video game company
floppy disk · dot matrix printer · camcorder · car phone · cassette tape · boombox · Betamax · LaserDisc · MS-DOS · word processor
mixtape
Informal song compilation
- arcadeArched passageway or gaming hall
- boomboxPortable stereo with speakers
- ALFShortened extraterrestrial term
E.T. · Gremlins · Top Gun · Ghostbusters · Back to the Future · Ferris Bueller · Transformers · He-Man · Care Bears · Cabbage Patch Kids
Reaganomics
Supply-side fiscal philosophy
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
Thatcherism · Iran-Contra · Berlin Wall · Solidarity · apartheid · Falklands War · nuclear arms race · Sandinistas · Gorbachev · trickle-down
Chernobyl
Soviet nuclear disaster site
- Challenger disasterShuttle destroyed during ascent
- AIDS crisisHIV epidemic's deadly peak
- Exxon ValdezGrounded supertanker, 1989
Live Aid · Tiananmen Square · Black Monday · Mount St. Helens · Hillsborough
anti-nuclear
Opposed to atomic energy
- Live AidMulti-venue famine benefit concerts
- ACT UPHIV/AIDS direct-action organization
- GreenpeaceEnvironmental activism organization
anti-apartheid · Free Mandela · pro-democracy · hunger strikes · We Are the World · consciousness raising · divestment · sanctuary movement · environmentalism
- Decades1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
- Fashion ErasVictorian era, Edwardian era, Elizabethan era, Georgian era, Baroque
- Synthwavesynth, synthesizer, synthesizers, arpeggio, arpeggios
1980s1960s
Decade after the fifties
1930s · austerity · communal values · anti-consumerism · 1970s
1980s2020s
Third decade, 21st century
the present · Victorian era · ancient times · 1880s · 1890s
- 1980s pop starFamous musician, Reagan era
- 1980s filmsMovies from that decade
- 1984 OlympicsLos Angeles Summer Games