| A | B |
|---|
| Berlin Wall | Built to keep people IN in 1961, it came down in 1989 |
| Bill Gates | co-founder and CEO of Microsoft |
| Chernobyl | Soviet site of nuclear accident in 1986 |
| Haley's Comet | returns every 76 years; appeared in 1986 |
| Just Say No | anti-drug catch-phrase of 1980's |
| Mt St Helens | Washington State volcano which erupted in 1980 |
| Pac Man | 1980's video game craze |
| Solidarity | Polish labor union that helped break Poland out of Soviet control in 1980's |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | satellites that would shoot down nuclear weapons from orbit |
| AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| space shuttle | reuseable spacecraft |
| Titanic | ship which sank in 1912; recovered in mid-1980's |
