A Catalyst for Change Ronald Reagan's Tear Down the Wall Speech

OTD in History… June 12, 1987, President Reagan calls on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. In summer of 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke to the citizens of Germany at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Throughout his speech, “Tear Down This Wall”, ... On June 12, 1987 President Reagan came to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin to speak to the leaders and citizens of West Germany. His primary goal was to ... 113 votes, 23 comments. I've seen the clip of him saying "Tear down this wall" dozens of times, but I'm curious if the popular uprising in ... Thirty-four years ago, on June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall to deliver an address ... Background. Color. Black, White, Red ... This call symbolized the broader struggle against the division of Europe and the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism during the Cold War. On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon ... Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) was an American politician and the 40th president of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. In his 1987 speech given during a visit to ... Reagan understood this and fought hard to end communist threats to freedom. He told General Secretary Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall ... On June 12, 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin ...