According to President Reagan, what does the Berlin Wall represent?
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Activity 10, The Cold War, continued
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Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a
vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the
Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire,
concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible,
no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the
same-still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose
upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. 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 imprinted this brutal
division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the
Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men.
Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar....
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity
for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come
here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall!
-President Ronald Reagan (June 12, 1987)
7a. What made President Reagan believe that General Secretary Gorbachev was
interested in seeking peace, prosperity, and liberalization?
7b. According to President Reagan, what does the Berlin Wall represent?
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