1. Aim #75: What role did Reagan play in shaping the end of the Cold War?
Do now! Please read the excerpts from Reagan’s 2 speeches and answer the accompanying questions
The body of East German Peter Fechter lying next to the Berlin Wall just after being shot in 1962, while trying to escape to the West

2. (1987) Reagan speech “Tear Down this Wall”
(I) Berlin Wall
Reagan revived Cold War rhetoric (had not been focus of the Nixon and Carter administrations)
Berlin Wall was built by Communists in 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West
Wall symbol of Cold War
(1987) Reagan speech “Tear Down this Wall”

3. 1. The grounds are justice, necessity and democratic tradition
(II) REAGAN DOCTRINE
proclaims overt and covert American support for anti- Communist revolutions
1. The grounds are justice, necessity and democratic tradition
2. Support anti-communist Freedom Fighters (places like Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada)
b. He escalated tension in 1st term with missile system (SDI) and rhetoric (“evil empire”)

4. Question: What is the perspective of both cartoonists?