1980 | A Visual Guide to the Cold War

PHILIPPINES DICTATORSHIP

WOLF IN MIDDLE EAST

CUTTING DOWN ON VODKA

I DON’T BELIEVE IN PEOPLE

AFRAID OF GORBACHEV

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

MOST IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGY

POPULAR IN THE WEST

TRIUMPH OF GLASNOST

COMMUNAL DECISIONS

ARRESTING DISSIDENTS

ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY

POLITBURO IN EAST EUROPE

INTERNAL MATTER

NEWS OUT OF POLAND

RUSSIA IN POLAND

JUMPING OVER THE IRON CURTAIN

SPECIAL EVENTS IN AFGHANISTAN

RUSSIAN ECONOMY

MUSHROOM GROWING FOR EVERYBODY

SCARING THE RUSSIANS

CHERNOBYL AND FEMA

CHARIOTS OF FIRE

DOMESTIC CRISES

SPORT PAIX AMITIE

LUZHNIKI STADIUM

SPORT FRIENDSHIP PEACE

XXII OLYMPIC GAMES

OLYMPIC NESTING DOLLS

OLYMPIC GAMES, 1980

GOLD SILVER BRONZE

WELCOME TO THE OLYMPICS

OLYMPICS PEACE FRIENDSHIP

MESSENGER OF PEACE

GAMES OF THE XXII OLYMPIAD

MOSCOW OLYMPICS 1980

OLYMPIADE MOSCOU 80

PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP

SPORT PEACE FRIENDSHIP

OLYMPIADA ’80

CAMP DAVID ACCORDS

SACRIFICING THE WORKERS

WITH MONOPOLIES

ENGLAND’S ECONOMY

TREMBLING STATES OF AMERICA

BRZEZINSKI’S LEGACY

WESTERN JUNGLES

MILITARY BUDGET

THE US AND ISRAEL

US CULTURAL EXPORTS

STATUE OF LIBERTY

West Berlin citizens hold a vigil atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate on November 10, 1989, the day after the East German government opened the border between East and West Berlin.

VIGIL ATOP THE BERLIN WALL

Two East Berliners jump across border barriers on the Eastern side of border checkpoint at Chaussee Street in Berlin in April of 1989. They were stopped by gun wielding East German border guards and arrested while trying to escape into West Berlin. People in the foreground, still in East Berlin, wait for permits to visit the West.

A JUMP ACROSS THE BORDER

East and West German Police try to contain the crowd of East Berliners flowing through the recent opening made in the Berlin wall at Potsdamer Square, on November 12, 1989.

EAST AND WEST GERMAN POLICE

An East Berlin border guard, cigarette in mouth, points his pistol to the scene where two East Germans were led away after failing to escape to the west at Berlin border crossing Chausseestrasse. Eyewitnesses reported the guard also fired shots.

EAST GERMAN GUARD

A man hammers away at the Berlin Wall on November 12, 1989 as the border barrier between East and West Germany was torn down.

THE WALL IS TORN DOWN

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early November 11, 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin, near the Potsdamer Square.