Portal:1980s/General images

The world map of military alliances in 1980:    NATO & Western allies,     Warsaw Pact & other Soviet allies,   Non-aligned countries,   China and Albania (communist countries, but not aligned with USSR), ××× Armed resistance

Invasion of Grenada, October 1983

The Israeli Air Force F-16A Netz '243' that was flown by Colonel Ilan Ramon during Operation Opera

U.S. President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty, 1987

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of German reunification

The space shuttle Challenger disintegrates on January 28, 1986

The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981

Michael Jackson was considered one of the most successful male pop and R&B artists of the 1980s.

Stage view of the Live Aid concert at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium in the United States in 1985. The concert was a major global international effort by musicians and activists to sponsor action to send aid to the people of Ethiopia who were suffering from a major famine.

The highest-grossing film of the decade was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in the mid-1980s and became the best-selling gaming console of its time

Miles Davis (pictured in 1984), whose 1970s fusion music helped lead to the development of smooth jazz in the 1980s.

Kenny G, one of the leading smooth jazz artists which emerged in the 1980s

The Police, regarded by Rolling Stone as “possibly the biggest band in the world”, November 1983.[1]

Controversial dance pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood in London, 1985

David Bowie saw commercial success during the early 1980s

Michael Hutchence singing during an INXS concert, early 1980s

Among women large hair-dos and puffed-up styles typified the decade of the 1980s.[2] (Jackée Harry, 1988)

Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins in 1986.

The Grateful Dead in 1980. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. Not pictured: Brent Mydland.