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1983 in international relations
Evil Empire speechAnthony R. Dolan, Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter in 1983, coined the phrase evil empire for the president to use. Dolan had included similar language in…
Able Archer 83In May 1981, a closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders took place. General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov…
Korean Air Lines Flight 007On the morning of the 1st of September 1983, a Boeing 747-230B jet airliner departed from Anchorage International Airport in Alaska.
Cold War (1979–1985)The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, shattering a decade of cooperation between Washington and Moscow.