>>> MR.�GORBACHEV OPEN THIS GATE.
ON JUNE�12, 1987, IN AN EFFORT TO HAVE GENERAL
SECRETARY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV MOVE FORWARD IN
NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT REDUCING NUCLEAR ARSENALS,
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN PUBICLY CHALLENGED
GORBACHEV IN HIS SPEECH IN FRONT OF THE BRANDENBURG
GATE AND BERLIN WALL SEPARATING EAST AND WEST
BERLIN.
NEGOTIATING TO REDUCE NUCLEAR ARSENALS STARTED
IN NOVEMBER�1985.
NO AGREEMENT WAS MADE, BUT THE TWO SIDES CONTINUED
TO NEGOTIATE.
IN SEPTEMBER�1986 AFTER THE NEGOTIATIONS
STALLED, GORBACHEV ASKED TO PERSONALLY MEET
WITH REAGAN AND TRY AND REACH AN AGREEMENT.
WHEN THEY MET IN OCTOBER, 1986, DISCUSSIONS
AGAIN NEGOTIATIONS FALTERED.
EIGHT MONTHS LATER, REAGAN MADE HIS FAMOUS
PLEA FOR PEACE AND NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTION
IN FRONT OF THE BERLIN WALL.
"MR.�GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL."
JUST SIX MONTHS LATER IN DECEMBER, 1987, GORBACHEV
AND REAGAN SIGNED AN AGREEMENT FOR BOTH SIDES
TO ELIMINATE ALL THEIR INTERMEDIATE RANGE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
TWO YEARS AFTER REAGAN'S SPEECH THE BERLIN
WALL CAME DOWN PIECE BY PIECE AND THE COLD
WAR WAS OVER.
