Demanding Freedom Reagan's Tear Down the Wall Speech

Reagan's speech addressed the restrictions of the East German totalitarian state, represented by the infamous Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the Cold War, separating families and forcing a comparison between socialist and capitalist ideals. The wall did ultimately ... The larger-than-life statue sits atop the US Embassy, near where Reagan gave his "tear down this wall" speech. Merkel thanked the US for its ... On June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate, United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the ... Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” And while Reagan certainly exhorted the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to rid ... On Friday, June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan, standing in front of the Berlin Wall that divided Germany into free and communist sectors, spoke 2,703 words, ... Gorbachev, tear down this wall” so immortal and definitive in hindsight. “It didn't achieve a place in history,” Robinson told Cooke, “until the ... OnThisDay 1987: “Tear down this wall.” US President Ronald Reagan issued a challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin. For most of Ronald Reagan's advisers and diplomats, the president's June 1987 Berlin speech was much too confrontational -- a disaster in ... In this US history lesson, students analyze the Berlin Wall speeches of President John F. Kennedy (1963) and President Ronald Reagan (1987) in both video and ...