The
1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world,
surpassing even the 1970s and 1990s, thus arguably being the largest in human
history. Population growth was particularly rapid in a number of African,
Middle Eastern, and South Asian countries during this decade, with rates of
natural increase close to or exceeding 4% annually.
Music
Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained
popularity in the 1980s.
They are best known for their two biggest hits,
"Big in Japan" and "Forever Young". As of 1984, they had
sold over 80 million albums. Most albums were sold in South America and Europe.
Film
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced, directed and
co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The
Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio,
R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S.
Marines through their training and the experiences of two marines of the
platoon in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film title refers to
the full metal jacket bullet used by infantry riflemen.
The film was critically acclaimed and is now
regarded widely as one of the greatest war films ever made as well as one of
Stanley Kubrick's finest works. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best
Adapted Screenplay for Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford.
Politics
Nuclear threats
Operation Opera - a 1981 surprise Israeli air
strike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor being constructed in Osirak.
Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium
production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence
also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the
reactor before it would be loaded with nuclear fuel.
President Reagan's decision to station
intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe provoked mass protests
involving more than one million people.
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