“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” stated Ronald Reagan in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. June 12, 1987 was the day a speech was given that was the start of unity for all of Berlin. Within two short years of this speech being presented, the wall that divided freed...
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Title: The Berlin Wall General purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: to inform about The Berlin Wall aka Berliner Mauer Central idea: There are three parts to...
It was on June 12, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Berlin directed to the Soviet Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev and asking him to tear down this wall of shame. By this time, the communists were also beginning to weaken and losing their hold on East Germany. It was...
I saw this photo on Twitter. The image is not dated, but I’m guessing the very early 1960’s, before the Berlin wall was completed. West Germans stare down the East after a young woman made it across the line.pic.twitter.com/NqAPl73SOM ...
In the last phase of the wall's development, the "death strip" between fence and concrete wall. United States President Ronald Reagan delivers his famed "Tear Down This Wall" speech at the Berlin Wall in June of 1987, in which he called for Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tea...
The fall of the wall marked the winding down of the Cold War, and started a new age where communism would cease to exist. Much of the credit was being given to Ronald Reagan, who had visited the wall just a few years earlier. When Reagan gave his “Tear down this wall” speech, no...
a house. Elsewhere in the city you will also find works by other renowned street artists, such as El Bocho, Emess and Alias. And of course there's the 1.3-kilometre-long East Side Gallery: the longest intact piece of the Berlin Wall that has been transformed into a public art gallery....
From 1961 to 1989 the Brandenburg Gate came to symbolize divided Germany, as the Berlin Wall shut off access to the gate for both East and West Germans. It served as the backdrop for U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech in which he entreated the Soviet leader, “Mr. Gorbache...