Reagan's Defining Moment The Tear Down the Wall Speech

If President Reagan had delivered a different speech at a different spot in Berlin, as the German government lobbied hard to convince him to do, ... Not even the most optimistic observer of President's Ronald Reagan's 1987 Berlin speech calling on Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down ... For most of Ronald Reagan's advisers and diplomats, the president's June 1987 Berlin speech was much too confrontational -- a disaster in ... The crowd's wild reaction unsettled the president and those with him. JFK later told his military aide that, "If I told them to go tear down the ... BACKGROUND. NARRATIVE. On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood before the wall that had separated East and. West Berlin since 1961. The Berlin Wall was ... ... reforms, and to "tear down this wall." In this IR Explainer video, we'll place the speech in its historical context and consider its OTD in History… June 12, 1987, President Reagan calls on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. During the US President Ronald Reagan's second term, he sought reconciliation with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. Standing at the communist barrier dividing the same city 24 years later, Ronald Reagan cried, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'' The 25th ... 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 ...