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 </imagemap>