80's Vocabulary
Wow. Vocabulary is a funny thing. I haven't thought of so many of these words in over a decade. Let's recount some popular words and phrases from the 1980's lest we forget the past:
- Ash heap of history (Reagan's prediction of where the Soviet Union would end up)
- Anti-nuclear protest
- Brandenburg Gate
- Cold War
- Détente
- East Germany
- Eastern Europe
- Iron Curtain
- Krelim
- Nuclear Armageddon
- Peacemaker (MX Missile)
- Perestroika
- Pershing (Short Range Nuclear Missile)
- Pravada (Soviet Newspaper meaning "Truth")
- Reichstag
- Solidarity (Polish Workers Movement)
- Soviet Union
- SS-20 (Soviet Nuclear Missiles)
- Star Wars (SDI - Strategic Defense Initiative)
- The Wall (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!)
- Western Europe
- West Germany