"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! ... As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind." — Ronald Reagan, Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987
Within four years of this speech, which event most clearly followed?
- A
The Cuban Missile Crisis
- B
The construction of the Berlin Wall
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union into independent republics
- D
The signing of the original NATO treaty
Explanation
The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the USSR dissolved by December 1991, ending the Cold War within roughly four years of Reagan's Brandenburg Gate speech.