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Hirohito's Death (Other)
-End of the Showa Period and transition into Heisei
-Also officially ended any existing hostilities between other nations during the cold war
-End of Japanese totalitarianism and fascism -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (economic)
-An oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef
-Spilled 11-38 million gallons of oil
-Sharp increase in oil prices
-Industry relied heavily on oil
-More government intervention -
Solidarity (social)
-Poland forms first Trade Union.
-Against the communist regimes.
-First steps towards the fall of the communist party
-Broad anti-bureaucratic social movement
-used civil resistance to advance the causes of worker's rights -
Mikhail S. Gorbachev named President (political)
Last General Secretary of Soviet Union
Gorbachev and Reagan work out a deal
Countries stop making new nuclear weapons
Eliminate many that they had accumulate
Ends Cold War AND Soviet Union (and communism)
Economy suffered -
Creation of Congress of People’s Deputies
1989 to 1991
Gorbachev’s reform (then the General Secretary)
Form of Congress with electoral progress
First hints of a democratic process in Soviet Union
Beginning of demise -
WWW created
The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.
Became the key of the information Age. -
Tiananmen Square Protests (military)
Student uprising
Caused by the death of Hu Yaobang
Hu fought against the corrupt elite, inflation, and limited career prospects
Deng Xiaoping sent 300,000 troops to suppress the protests
Revival of communism in China
Censorship laws in China -
Outburst of V404 Cygni
Combination of a black hole and a companion star
One of the closest, most observable black holes
Erupted in 1989 (images from 2015)
Spotted by Japanese satellites
Changed scientist’s understanding of black holes
Part of space race -
Sowing the Seeds of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bTuG4zCnhY
-Sowing the Seeds of Love (1989) (Tears for Fears)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0
-Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) (Tears for Fears)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcr0ITujHOc
-People Have the Power (Patti Smith) (1988) -
Berlin Wall Falls
Communist East Germany erected wall
1961
“Keep fascists out of East Germany”
Keep citizens from defecting from East to West
Nov 9 East Germany says citizens are free to cross over to West
Citizens swarm to/through wall
June 13, 1990 official deconstruction
July 1 East adopts Western currency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-9_uQx6IsQ -
US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega
-Noriega was used by the CIA to assist in stopping communism
-He became a notorious drug trafficker and money launderer
-Nulled elections that would make Endara president
-End of US interference with communism -
Tokyo Stock Market Crash
-Nikkei 225 reached its all time high
-Huge economic bubble
-Ended long period of high economic growth (second largest economy)
-uncontrolled money supply
-credit expansion
-real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated
