Ronald Reagan's family began calling the baby "Dutch." The nickname remained for the rest of his life. 罗纳德·里根的家人在他出生时称他为“Dutch”。这个绰号一直陪伴着他。 Jack Reagan worked at a general store. The family was poor. Yet, in a book about his life, Ronald Reagan wrote tha...
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1 In this speech, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as “focus of evil in the modern world,” asking that Americans to pray for the salvation of those living in totalitarian darkness. A couple of weeks later, on March 23 1983, Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative. In his ...
Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted9 this brutal10 division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, ...
when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. The German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin doubled....
Tear Down This Wall! Communism and the Soviet Union Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!(Speech at theBerlin Wallon June 12, 1987) How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's...
Why did Reagan win the presidential election of 1984? Why was Reagan's Berlin Wall speech important? Why did Reagan give the Berlin Wall speech? Why was Richard Nixon important in the Cold War? Why did economic inequality increase during the Reagan administration?
Ronald Reagan is one of the most talked about presidents in history; he went through a lot while in office and had one of the highest approval ratings. His re-election campaign was more of a foregone conclusion than an actual race for the presidency and after his death many are still ...
Was Ronald Reagan's ""tear down this Wall"" speech the best approach to the unification of Germany? What Was the Tear Down This Wall Speech? In 1987, the Soviet Union controlled East Germany and kept their citizens in by a quickly erected wall built at ...
Many of these decisions and policies he made would change the world forever. Ronald Reagan helped end an era of Communism and the Cold War. In his famous "Tear Down This Wall" speech Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall (Burgan 108-111). This wall was a ...