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1.3 War, peace and politics

Cold War peaks; fall of the Iron Curtain
- Jimmy Carter announces a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow; Eastern Bloc countries boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
- Solidarity movement in Poland launched in 1981. It eventually topples the country's Communist regime
- Ronald Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative, derided as "Star Wars." Deploys Pershing missiles in Western Europe to counter the Soviety SS-20, to widespread protests
- Soviet fighters down Korean Air Flight 7 in 1983
- Gorbachev introduces Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union
- Fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany, preparing the way to German reunification
- Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia
- Revolution in Romania, execution of Ceausescu
Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism dominate British politics. The so-called Reagan Revolution introduces neoconservatives to Washington
Falklands War; Argentine invades the Falkland islands in 1982 but defeated by Great Britain
Israel invades Lebanon in 1982. A suicide bomber kills 241 U.S. marines stationed there as peacekeepers.
Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 kills one million people
Over 120,000 flee Cuba in 1980 during the Mariel Airlift
P.W. Botha suppresses anti- apartheid activists; international boycotts of South Africa continue
King Juan Carlos of Spain prevents a military coup in 1980. Spain joined NATO in 1982; it joined the European Union with Portugal in 1986.
In 1989 students protest on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China and are ruthlessly suppressed
"People Power" in the Philippines topples the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship; military rule ends after protests in Argentina and South Korea
The Soviet Union ends its disastrous military campaign in Afghanistan
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is exposed as a former Nazi
Vietnam continues its military occupation of Cambodia
In Europe, rise of right wing parties ( Le Pen in France, Schönhuber /Republikaner in Germany, Haider in Austria), parallel to a rise of Green parties.
Political correctness
U.S. invades Grenada
The Reagan doctrine supports anti-communist insurgencies in El Salvador and elsewhere, but leads to the Iran-Contra scandal

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