Berlin Wall and reuniting Germany.
Former US President Ronald Reagan often gets the credit for precipitating
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which led to the eventual restoration
of a united Germany. Reagan is well known for the 1987 speech in which he
urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” But not
all of Reagan's Cold War allies wanted to see East and West Germany
reunified. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was staunchly opposed
to the whole idea.
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