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The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 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.
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Eurocommunism was a trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties, which said they had developed a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant for Western Europe. During the Cold War, they sought to reject the influence of the Soviet Union and its communist party.
By the late 1970s, Soviet influence in Latin America had reached crisis proportions according to several United States Congressmen. [120] Diplomatic and economic ties were established with several countries during the 1970s, and one of them, Peru bought external goods from the Soviet Union.
During a 17 May 1973 ceremony honouring Luigi Calabresi, in which the Interior Minister was present, Gianfranco Bertoli, an anarchist, threw a bomb that killed four and injured 45. In 1975, Bertoli was sentenced to life imprisonment: the Milan Court wrote that he was connected with the far-right New Order and was a SID informant and a confidant ...
The Russian army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia during the Russo-Georgian War. Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian War, in Lysychansk, Ukraine on 4 August 2014. Battle of Bakhmut, 2023. 2001: 2001 insurgency in Macedonia; 2001–2003: Pankisi Gorge crisis; 2001–present: Abkhazia conflict. 2001: 2001 Kodori crisis; 2006: 2006 ...
During the Cold War prior to the 1970s and 1980s, the primary heavy strategic bomber of the United States Air Force was the B-52 Stratofortress. However, the development of more sophisticated Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) technology rendered the B-52 more vulnerable to attacks from the ground and enemy fighters. The Air Force saw a ...
Since the end of World War II, sovereign European countries have entered into treaties and thereby co-operated and harmonised policies (or pooled sovereignty) in an increasing number of areas, in the European integration project or the construction of Europe (French: la construction européenne).