Directions: On your own paper, briefly explain why the following events/terms/persons were important in the year indicated. Be sure your answer relates to the correct year. Each event/term/person has a link that provides the answer. 2 points each.

On some pages, you may want to use the "find" tool located under "EDIT" at the top of your screen. Click on "EDIT" and "FIND." Type in the term you are trying to find. Continue until you find what you are wanting for the answer.

There is a "low-tech" version of this exercise located HERE!

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EVENTS/TERMS/PERSONS:

1976:

1. Jimmy Carter
2. Year-long celebration
3. Death penalty
4. "Streaking"
5. North & South Vietnam
6. Legionnaires disease
7. Concorde
8. U.S. Air Force Academy

   1977:

9. Amnesty granted
10. Gary Gilmore
11. Department of Energy
12. Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
13. Panama Canal Treaty
14. New York City
15. Elvis
16. Voyager I & II

    1978:

17. Camp David Agreement (Accords)
18. Bakke case
19. People's Temple
20. Muhammed Ali
21. Iran
22. Harvey Milk

    1979:

23. Iranian Hostage Crisis
24. Three Mile Island
25. Margaret Thatcher
26. Chrysler Corporation
27. Karen Silkwood

    1980:

28. Afghanistan
29. Mary Decker
30. Hunt family of Dallas
31. Miami, Florida
32. Mt. St. Helens
33. Summer of 1980
34. John Lennon
35. MGM Hotel
36. "Who Shot J.R.?"
37. Ronald Reagan
38. Love Canal
39. "Freedom Flotilla"

    1981:

40. 25% Tax Cut
41. Solidarity
42. Bob Marley
43. Atlanta Child Murders
44. John Paul II
45. John Hinckley
46. Hyatt Regency Hotel
47. Charles & Diana
48. PATCO
49. Personal Computer
50. Sandra Day O'Connor
51. Anwar Sadat

    1982:

52. Falkland Islands
53. Thriller
54. Equal Rights Amendment
55. Vietnam Memorial
56. lethal injection
57. AT&T

    1983:

58. Sally Ride
59. "Star Wars"
60. Grenada
61. Ethiopia
62. Lebanon
63. Benito Aquino
64. KAL flight 007
65. Wells Fargo

    1984:

66. Republican Convention
67. Bhopal, India
68. AIDs
69. Marvin Gaye
70. Geraldine Ferraro
71. Vanessa Williams
72. Los Angeles Olympics

    1985:

73. Bernard Goetz
74. South Africa
75. Coca-Cola
76. "Crack"
77. MOVE
78. Largest debtor nation
79. Rock Hudson
80. Mikhail Gorbachev
81. Live Aid
82. DFW Airport
83. Mexico City

    1986:

84. Challenger
85. Chernobyl
86. Tylenol
87. Iran-Contra
88. Libya
89. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    1987:

90. AZT
91. Jim Bakker
92. Bill Gates of Microsoft
93. Baby Jessica
94. "Black Monday"
95. Walker Railey

    1988:

96. Yellowstone National Park
97. Willie Horton
98. Galaudet College
99. USS Vincennes
100. The Satanic Verses published
101. "no new taxes"
102. Lockerbie, Scotland

     1989:

103. Tianamen Square
104. Colin Powell
105. Manuel Noriego
106. Communism
107. Exxon Valdez
108. San Francisco
109. Pete Rose
110. Douglas Wilder
111. Hirohito
112. Ted Bundy

     1990:

113. Kuwait
114. Marion Barry
115. Nelson Mandella
116. Americans with Disabilities Act
117. Boris Yeltsin

     1991:

118. Desert Storm
119. David Duke
120. Clarence Thomas
121. Luby's Cafeteria
122. Jeffrey Dahmer
123. Terry Anderson

     1992:

124. Rodney King
125. Bill Clinton
126. Ross Perot
127. Somalia
128. Ruby Ridge
129. Tailhook Scandal
130. Hurricane Andrew

     1993:

131. Branch Davidians
132. World Trade Center
133. The Bobbitts
134. NAFTA
135. Gays in military

     1994:

136. Haiti
137. Whitewater
138. O.J. Simpson
139. Tanya Harding
140. Republicans
141. Kurt Cobain

     1995:

142. Oklahoma City
143. Prime Minister Rabin
144. Selena
145. Former Yugoslavia
146. Million Man March
147. Susan Smith
148. Ebola Virus
149. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
150. Cadet Murder

     1996:

151. Unabomber
152. Saudi Arabia
153. Freemen
154. Ron Brown
155. FBI Files
156. TWA Flight 800
157. Atlanta, Georgia
158. Jack Kemp
159. Jon Benet Ramsey

     1997:

160. Republic of Texas
161. Darlie Routier
162. Timothy McVeigh
163. Madeleine Albright
164. Mike Tyson
165. Heaven's Gate
166. Jimmy Stewart
167. The Goldmans & Browns
168. Paula Jones
169. Tiger Woods
170. Mars
171. Bill Cosby
172. Andrew Cunanon
173. Paparazzi
174. El Nino

     1998:

175. Monica Lewinsky
176. Frank Sinatra
177. Kenneth Starr
178. Phil Hartman
179. Africa
180. The Titanic
181. Skiing accidents
182. China
183. Tanzania and Kenya
184. Washington D.C.
185. Sudan and Afghanistan
186. Mark McGuire
187. Stock Market
188. Hurricane Mitch
189. Articles of Impeachment
190. John Glenn

     1999:

191. Janet Reno
192. Mountain Gorillas
193. Joe DiMaggio
194. Jasper, Texas
195. Al Gore, Bill Bradley, Pat Buchanon, George Bush, Lamar Alexander, Dan Quayle, and Elizabeth Dole
196. Tornado Alley
197. Y2K
198. Kosovo
199. Columbine High School
200. Wedgewood Baptist Church
201. Payne Stewart
202. Egypt Air 990
203. Texas A&M
204. George Harrison

     2000:

205. The Millenium
206. Elian Gonzalez