Even as Mr. Gorbachev began loosening the reins on the Soviet empire, Reagan pushed him to go further, traveling to Berlin in 1987 and challenging him to “tear down this wall.”‌ ‌ ...

Nine years later, when Reagan as president revisited that wall, he included in his speech a phrase that prudent diplomats had urged him to delete, lest it anger the Kremlin: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear ...

There was no signing of a treaty or other agreement to declare the end of the Cold War, nothing that would give us a definitive point to celebrate like V-E Day or V-J Day in World War II or ...

By Steven V. Roberts. In June of 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at the barrier dividing East and West Berlin and challenged ... Gorbachev,” thundered the American president, “tear down this wall! ...

We were discussing what had happened at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The two men left without an arms treaty after discussing ways to reduce ...

HIGHS Victory in Cold War: “Tear down this wall!” Reagan said at the Berlin Wall in a 1987 challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Gipper helped negotiate the end of war.

WASHINGTON — When Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, the United States faced two major foreign policy challenges: the generation-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, and an ...

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong.