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| 1982 |
Equal Rights Amendment dies
CIA Organizes contra war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government |
| 1983 |
239 U.S. Marines die in Beirut terrorist attack
U.S. Invasion of Grenada
Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) |
| 1984 |
Geraldine Ferraro chosen as vice presidential running mate
on Democratic ticket
Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in landslide
Congress bars military aid to contras |
| 1986 |
William Rehnquist becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia joins the Supreme Court |
| 1988 |
Oliver North, John Poindexter, and other Iran-contra figures
indicted
Reagan signs INF Treaty in Moscow
George Herbert Walker Bush elected President
Anthony Kennedy joins the Supreme Court |
| 1989 |
Oliver North convicted of Iran-contra role
Massive Alaskan oil spill by Exxon Valdez
U.S. Invasion of Panama; Manuel Noriega overthrown
China's rulers crush prodemocracy movement
Berlin Wall is opened |
| 1990 |
Iraq invades Kuwait
Recession begins
Germany reunited; Soviet troops start withdrawal from Eastern Europe
David H. Souter joins the Supreme Court |
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