Walter Reuther: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally

Glossary

• blockade an effort by one nation or power to prevent the transport of people or supplies to and from another enemy nation or power
• Brandenburg Gate a massive structure, completed in 1791, that has served as a symbol of Berlin—especially during the cold war, when the gate stood just inside the Communist controlled sector
• dark days of 1933 reference to the Nazi takeover of Germany, which began with Hitler’s appointment as the nation’s chancellor on January 30, 1933
• Iron Curtain a term for the metaphorical barrier between the totalitarian Communist nations and the liberal democratic world
• vanguard leaders or forerunners, a term often employed by Communists in reference to themselves