Image 2From left, clockwise: The first
Space Shuttle,
Columbia, lifts off in 1981; US president
Ronald Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the
end of the Cold War; The
fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the
IBM Personal Computer is released; In 1985, the
Live Aid concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the
famine in Ethiopia during the time
Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled the country;
Pollution and ecological problems persisted when the
Soviet Union and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986
Chernobyl disaster, and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in
Bhopal during a
gas leak from a pesticide plant; The
Iran–Iraq War leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while
another war between the Soviets and Afghans leaves over 2 million dead.
(
1980 දශකය වෙතින්)