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Sen. Ted Cruz The Daily Signal 11/09/2014 Twenty-five years ago today, the world changed when the seemingly impenetrable wall between East and West Germany was torn down by a people determined to break the stranglehold of totalitarian communism… …In 1987, Ronald Reagan stood in front of the grim barrier that had been […] November 9th, 2014 | Tags: Berlin Wall, Cold War, freedom, President Ronald Reagan, Soviet Union, tyranny | Category: Communism, Germany, History, Marxism, Russia | Comments are closed
Historians: Docs reveal struggle and resolve of the human spirit for freedom Daniel Wiser The Washington Free Beacon 1/14/2014 Thousands of newly declassified documents about the Berlin Wall reveal the struggle and resolve of the human spirit for freedom, archivists and historians said on Tuesday. The National Archives’ National Declassification Center (NDC) has released 11,000 […] January 14th, 2014 | Tags: "Checkpoint Charlie", Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin, freedom, Mikhail Gorbachev, National Archives’ National Declassification Center (NDC), President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, West Berlin | Category: Communism, Environment, Germany, History | Comments are closed
Nile Gardiner The Telegraph [UK] 12 June 2012 Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: standing up to the Evil Empire
…In so many respects Reagan’s firm leadership in the 1980s towers over that of Barack Obama today. It would be hard to imagine President Obama delivering an address with the power and moral […] June 13th, 2012 | Tags: Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate Speech, East Germany, leadership, President Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Soviet Union | Category: Barack Obama, Communism, Foreign Policy, Germany, Great Britain, History, United States | Comments are closed
Andy Ace of Spades HQ 6/12/2012 A blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things, but it sure seems like a long time ago … Go to Ace of Spades HQ for video of the entire speech. […] June 12th, 2012 | Tags: Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate Speech, East Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan | Category: Communism, Germany, History, Russia | Comments are closed
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider 6/10/2012 As we deal with an under-employment crises that refuses to go away, the 1990s are now remembered as an age of prosperity that only got out of hand in a tech bubble at the end of the decade. But that’s not what happened at all. Peter Thiel – the billionaire […] June 10th, 2012 | Tags: 1990s, Alan Greenspan, Amazon, Berlin Wall, Bill Gates, Euro, financial crisis, innovation, Internet Explorer, Larry Augustin, Long-Term Capital Management crisis, Microsoft, Netscape, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), PayPal, Peter Thiel, President Bill Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, recession, Ross Perot, Silicon Valley, Warren Buffett, Yahoo! | Category: Asia, China, Federal Reserve, History, Internet, Mexico, Politics, Russia, technology | Comments are closed
Ted Thornhill Daily Mail [UK] 3rd January 2012 It’s a great way to brush up on your history – but some may find parts a bit depressing. YouTube user derDon1234 has squashed 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage. It charts some of our greatest achievements, […] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 1979 Islamic Revolution, 20th Century, 9/11/2001, Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, Berlin Wall, Bhopal, Cassius Clay, Charles Lindbergh, Chernobyl, D-Day, Empire State Building, Fukushima nuclear disaster, Hindenburg disaster, hydrogen bomb, Khmer Rouge, Lockerbie, lunar landing, Mao Zedong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammad Ali, Mohandas Ghandi, Pearl Harbor, Pope John Paul II, President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Roald Amundsen, Rwanda, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Influenza, Sputnik, The Six Day War--1967, Titanic, tsunami, Viet Nam, Weimar Republic | Category: Asia, Barack Obama, China, Communism, Crime, Cuba, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military, Nazis, North Korea, Politics, Russia, Science/Research/Technology, technology, terrorism, United States, Video, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
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