The Road to the Wall – Ronald Reagan and his Call, “Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.” Cover Image

The Road to the Wall – Ronald Reagan and his Call, “Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.”
The Road to the Wall – Ronald Reagan and his Call, “Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.”

Author(s): Clark S. Judge
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: BL Nonprofit Kft

Summary/Abstract: On 12 June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the wall that surrounded the free world’s enclave hundreds of miles inside Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. There, in delivering the speech that defined the final phase of the Cold War, he called out a direct challenge to the leader of the Soviet Union: “Mr Gorbachev, Tear down this wall.”

  • Issue Year: VI/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 21-27
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English