Gorbatjov var, med sine 54 år, ung og havde ny idéer til, hvordan Sovjetunionens økonomi skulle reddes fra de strukturproblemer, den var ude i. I modsætning til sine forgængere havde Gorbatjov en energisk og farverig karisma . President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev enter oval office and Gorbachev signs VIP guest Book, Photo Op … På utrikesplanet arbetade Gorbatjov för avspänning och avrustning. The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev congratulates East German leader Erich Honecker with a fraternal hug and kiss after Honecker’s re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party Congress in East Berlin, on April 21, 1986. Han var USA:s president ren 19811989 och guvernr i Kalifornien ren 19671975. Ronald Wilson Reagan, fdd 6 februari 1911 i Tampico i Illinois, dd 5 juni 2004 i Bel Air i Los Angeles, var en amerikansk skdespelare och republikansk politiker. De senaste 20 åren har han spelat en marginell politisk roll, men hans insatser under 1980-talet förändrade världen. Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961. 2 mars i år fyller Michail Gorbatjov 80 år. Review of Jack F. Matlock Jr.’s book, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. Bush, Reagan og Gorbatjov i New York, 1988. Fre sin SCAN-TT-00749923 Ronald Reagan’s Disarmament Dream How Reagan’s fantasy about—and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fear of—space weapons ruined a plan to eliminate the entire U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals. Full Title: US/Soviet Summit. "Tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987. I ett avtal (det så kallade INF-avtalet) med USA:s president Ronald Reagan 1987 beslöts att avskaffa alla medeldistansrobotar. Ronald Reagan was widely eulogized for having won the cold war, liberated Eastern Europe and pulled the … The Reykjavik Summit On October 11, 1986, halfway between Moscow and Washington, D.C., the leaders of the world’s two superpowers met at the stark and picturesque Hofdi House in Reykjavik, Iceland. Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev had proposed the meeting to President Ronald Reagan less than thirty days before. Gorbatjov genomförde även en kampanj mot alkohol.