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The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1980, and ended on 31 December 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1980, and ended on 31 December 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
Timeline of World War I (1914–1924) Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War I; Timeline of the Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) Timeline of the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) Timeline of the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) Timeline of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1928–1937) Timeline of World War II (1939–1945)
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Timeline of strikes in 1990; Timeline of strikes in 1991; Timeline of strikes in 1992; Timeline of strikes in 1993; Timeline of strikes in 1994; Timeline of strikes in 1996; Timeline of strikes in 1999; Timeline of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt; Timeline of the Cox Report controversy
March 9 – Revolutions of 1989: The Soviet Union submits to the jurisdiction of the World Court. March 12 – Tim Berners-Lee produces the proposal document that will become the blueprint for the World Wide Web. [12] March 13 – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. 6,000,000 people are left without power ...
During the Cold War, the division of the world into two rival blocs had served to legitimize a broad and diffuse alliance not only with the Western European nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but many countries in the developing world. Starting in the late 1980s, however, the regimes of the Eastern European Warsaw Pact ...