2011, ISBN: 6134320978

Paperback, [EAN: 9786134320979], Alphascript Publishing, English, English, Alphascript Publishing, Book, Alphascript Publishing, 2011-02-23, Alphascript Publishing, Please note that the c… Mehr…

Paperback, [EAN: 9786134320979], Alphascript Publishing, English, English, Alphascript Publishing, Book, Alphascript Publishing, 2011-02-23, Alphascript Publishing, Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. "Tear down this wall!" was the challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall. In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, by the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of Gorbachev's desire for increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc. At the time, the speech received "relatively little coverage from the media." Communists were also unimpressed by the speech, and the Soviet press agency Tass accused Reagan as giving an "openly provocative, war-mongering speech." Twenty-nine months later, on 9 November 1989, after intense East German protest, East Germany finally opened the Berlin Wall. By the end of the year, official operations to dismantle the wall began. With the collapse of the Communist governments of Eastern Europe and, eventually, the Soviet Union itself, the tearing down of the wall epitomized the collapse for history., 11232, Social Sciences, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<