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1980s
<imagemap> File:1980s replacement montage02.PNG|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first
Space Shuttle
,
Columbia
, lifted off in 1981; American president
Ronald Reagan
and
Soviet
leader
Mikhail Gorbachev
eased 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 event of the 1980s; In 1981, the
IBM Personal Computer
is released; In 1985, the
Live Aid
concert was held in order to fund relief efforts for the
famine in Ethiopia
during the time
Mengistu Haile Mariam
ruled the country;
Ukraine
and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986
Chernobyl disaster
; The
Iran–Iraq War
leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent. rect 2 3 199 169
Space Shuttle Columbia
rect 201 1 497 171
End of the Cold War
rect 1 172 241 336
Iran–Iraq War
rect 246 173 506 336
Fall of the Berlin Wall
rect 123 337 323 525
Live Aid
rect 326 338 510 536
IBM Personal Computer
rect 0 339 121 515
Chernobyl disaster
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