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‘Tear down this wall!’ – the story behind Reagan’s message to Gorbachev
On 12 June 1987, US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this wall!’
Bugs in the building! Why Reagan halted construction of the new embassy in Moscow
The Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to disable.
The relationship between the USA and the USSR in the 1980s
Gorbachev’s involvement in nuclear disarmament negotiations between the Soviet Union and the USA. The USA’s plans to develop ‘Star Wars’ and the collapse of talks at the Reykjavik in 1986. From Curriculum Bites.
