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Nov 6, 2019 · BERLIN (AP) — A glance at events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and Germany’s subsequent reunification. Jan. 19, 1989: East German leader Erich Honecker says the Berlin Wall “will still exist in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not overcome.”
Nov 6, 2014 · By TIME Staff. November 6, 2014 7:00 AM EST. A s the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, take a look back at how it came to be, how it changed the world and how it...
The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. By the end of 1990, much of the Wall had been demolished. Explore our timeline of key events in the Berlin Wall’s history using IWM’s film collection.
1961 Jan 1 - 1989. Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the last major incident in the Cold War regarding the status of Berlin and post– World War II Germany. By the early 1950s, the Soviet Union approach to restricting emigration movement was emulated by most of the rest of the Eastern Bloc.
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
Nov 8, 2019 · November 08, 2019. • 6 min read. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War....
Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world. The wave of revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe helped shape the continent for decades to come.
