the eighties!
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THE EIGHTIES!
By Vinicio Batista
Valmy
Ricardo Batista
Laura E. Batista
TOP MOVIES
By Vinicio Batista
1982
1984
BY LAURA BATISTA
GASTRONOMY AT THE 80S
YOU
KNOW
WHAT A
TRAPPER
KEEPER
IS.
IF YOU
WHERE ON
A BABY
SITTER
CLUB AND
WANTED TO
CREATE
ONE ON
YOUR OWN.
2 WORDS…
HAMMER PANTS
YOU WORE A
PONYTAIL ON
THE UPPER
SIDE OF YOUR
HEAD
WORE
ONE
OF THESE
REMEMBER
AND WANTED
THIS
IF YOU
REMEMBER
WHAT
SAVED
ZACK
THE 80S MUSIC GAME
PERFORMING HIGHWAY TO HELL
THE 80S MUSIC GAME
PERFORMING ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
THE 80S MUSIC GAME
PERFORMING KASHMIR
THE 80S MUSIC GAME
PERFORMING CLONES
THE 80S MUSIC GAME
PERFORMING FOR EVER YOUNG
By Ricardo Batista
WARS
The United States engaged in significant direct and indirect conflict in the decade via alliances with various groups in a number of Central and South American countries claiming that the U.S. was acting to oppose the spread of communism and end illicit drug trade.
The U.S. government supported the government of Colombia s attempts to destroy its large illicit cocaine-trafficking industry and provided support for right-wing military government in the Salvadoran civil war which became controversial after the El Mozote massacre on December 11, 1981 in which U.S.-trained Salvadoran paramilitaries killed 1000 Salvadoran civilians.
NUCLEAR THREATS
Operation Opera - a 1981 surprise Israeli air strike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor being constructed in Osirak. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor before it would be loaded with nuclear fuel.
President Reagan's decision to station intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe provoked mass protests involving more than one million people.
DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE:
Canada gained official independence from the United Kingdom with a new Constitution on 17 April 1982, authorized by the signature by Elizabeth II. This act severed all political dependencies of the United Kingdom in Canada (although the Queen remained the titular head of state).
In 1986, Australia and the United Kingdom fully separated Australia's governments from the influence of the British Parliament, resulting in a consolidation of Australia's independence that had been granted a century before.
Prominent political events:
USA:
Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. President in 1980. In international affairs, Reagan pursued a hardline policy towards preventing the spread of communism, initiating a considerable buildup of U.S. military power to challenge the Soviet Union. He further directly challenges the Iron Curtain by demanding that the Soviet Union dismantle the Berlin Wall.