1. The 1980s

2. SOLIDARITY in POLAND  In the 1970s & 1980s, ANTI-COMMUNIST revolutions began with the Workers’ Defense Committee, which used strikes and “lock-ins” to gain attention and support from the international community  Led by an electrician named LECH WALESA

3.  1980 – workers were given the official right to CREATE UNIONS. A national labor party, called SOLIDARITY, was formed with a membership of 10 million! (almost Poland’s entire labor force!)  1981 – Martial law (military law enforcement) was put into place in Poland by order of the SOVIETS  1990 – Free elections were held and LECH WALESA was elected PRESIDENT

4. BHOPAL, India  Because of increasingly strict American laws, many large CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS looked elsewhere to set up their factories. Many ended up in 3rd World Nations  UNION CARBIDE built a PESTICIDE chemical plant in BHOPAL, INDIA  December 3, 1984 – a cloud of gas (containing 45 tons of a deadly concentrated pesticide ingredient) leaked out of a high pressure storage tank

5.  Before the cloud scattered, 2,500 were KILLED and over 200,000 were injured (many injuries were long- term… blindness, sterility, kidney disease, liver infection, and brain damage)  Union Carbide was forced to pay $470 MILLION in COMPENSATION in 1989

6. CHERNOBYL  Chernobyl, USSR was the site of a major NUCLEAR POWER PLANT  April 26, 1986, an EXPLOSION at the plant led to RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION of the surrounding area

7.  It is regarded as the WORST NUCLEAR POWER ACCIDENT IN HISTORY  Over 330,000 people were evacuated and resettled

8. STAR WARS (no, not the movie)  REAGAN built his career as a firm ANTI- COMMUNIST  Reagan INCREASED DEFENSE SPENDING dramatically in the 1980s and ordered the Marines into:  (1982) – LEBANON as peacekeepers [oversee the withdrawal of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)]

9.  (1983) – GRENADA (island allied with Fidel Castro/Communist Cuba)  SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) – idea was to create a shield against incoming ICBMs (missiles) by attacking & destroying them with an orbiting weapons system called “Star Wars” by critics

10. TIANANMEN SQUARE  1989 – STUDENTS in CHINA PROTESTED their LACK OF RIGHTS  An ARMY moved in with TANKS after the crowd in Tiananmen Square refused to disperse

11.  Some army units actually joined the protestors  More than 1,000 were killed when the various army units opened fire on each other (students were caught in the crossfire)

12. Hypnotize by System of a Down Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square? Was fashion the reason why they were there? They disguise it, hypnotize it Television made you buy it I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my She's scared that I will take her away from there Dreams that her country left with no one there Mesmerize the simple minded Propaganda leaves us blinded I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl