Mikhail Gorbachev

Ronald Reagan believed he had life figured out when he signed a contract with Warner Brothers in August of 1945. However, in October of the same year, the Warner Brothers studio front gate hosted the Battle of Hollywood: a strike called by the Conference of Studio Unions. The strikers clogged the building’s entrance for weeks, causing the actors to sneak into the studio through the storm drain in order to continue production despite the protests. Reagan chose to enter the front of the…

George H.W Bush promised that there would be no new taxes, but as the national debt increased, Bush called for new taxes and urged people to reduce spending. This outraged many conservatives and people who had voted for him in hopes of lower taxes. As a result of the soaring tax rates, the economy fell into a recession in 1981. Unemployment rates went up and many businesses went bankrupt. I don’t think Bush handled this well at all. He broke the promise that got him the presidency to millions of…

The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity, celebrated on 3 October . The East German regime started to falter in May 1989, when the removal of Hungary's border fence opened a hole in the…

Thus, with every passing year, the contemporary popular music of the Seventies strayed away from the “counterculture” themes folk and early rock n roll endorsed. In part, geopolitical issues weren’t as pressing, but the tragedy at the Altamont Free Concert combined with Charles Manson’s murder spree largely brought an end to “hippie culture”. Disco, Funk, Country, and the early stirrings of Hip Hop took became the new music, and tended to focus attention on domestic politics and race. The war…

Reagan issued a statement on June 12, 1987. He arrived to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin with a challenge: to tear down the Berlin Wall and rally citizens to oppose the wall and accept democracy, “Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” There was no doubt that Reagan was a world leader and his word was very impactful. With his weighted word as President of the United States, along with moral appeal, he was able to captivate the Germans.…

Michael Mandelbaum born in 1946 is a well educated man with tremendous educational background and career. Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy program the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is also a former faculty member at Harvard University, Columbia University and the US Naval Academy; PhD, political science, Harvard University.Educated from Harvard University, Yale University and King’s College,…

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were currently in charge when the Cold War ended. Reagan and Gorbachev both wanted the same for their country, but were scared that they would turn against each other. I believe that Ronald Reagan was the one to influence more of an effort to “end” the Cold War. Reagan created the first treaty to reduce the number of nuclear power, Gave his famous speech “Tear Down The Wall” in Berlin, and signed the Washington treaty agreement with Gorbachev. Ronald was…

President Gorbachev assumed power of the Soviet Union shortly after the proposal of the Strategic Defense Initiative, while the program was being funded and developed. Though many of the components of the initiative were too advanced for the time, Gorbachev was still nervously skeptical of the program’s unreliability saying, “What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars” (Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes). Gorbachev’s political democratization efforts coupled…

world condemned the Soviets’ actions and wanted to mend relations in the west. In addition, the war effort had a crippling effect on the economy and the fate of Soviet Russia would be determined by the outcome of the war. Once defeat was imminent, Gorbachev wanted to prevent further damage and decided to withdraw his army. The last soldier to cross the Friendship Bridge to the border city of Termez, in Uzbekistan, did so on February 15, 1989. Although the withdrawal was called a year earlier, it…

Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” While he died during the earlier years of the Cold War, a decades-long conflict that never led to any combat but did cause intense strain, competition, and espionage between the two global superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, his statement proved to be remarkably prescient. David Hoffman structures his whole book on the horrifically…