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The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ⓘ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.
Nov 5, 2019 · It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.
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By 1989, the states of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc were experiencing growing unrest and the rise of solidarity movements. Most notable among these movements was a Polish trade union called Solidarity. Founded in 1980, Solidarity organised strikes and protests across the country, and was eventually successful in forcing Poland’s communist leade...
Unlike previous Soviet leaders such as Brezhnev, who had tightly controlled states under the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachevunderstood a changed and more modern approach to governing the USSR was needed when he became General Secretary in 1985. In an attempt to prevent the USSR bleeding money through the arms race with the US, Gorbachev’s policies of ‘glas...
On 9 November 1989, speaking to reporters, Soviet spokesperson Günter Schabowski mistakenly interpreted a press release about the border ‘opening’ between the West and East, inadvertently declaring that people could cross the border prematurely and without visas. The border policy was in fact meant to come into effect the next day, once administrat...
Harold Jäger was a border control guard in Berlin who also watched in awe as Schabowski announced the opening of the borders. Panicking, he called his superiors for orders but they too were stunned. Should he open fire on the growing crowd or open the gates? Recognising both the inhumanity and futility of a handful of guards attacking the colossal ...
Nov 8, 2019 · Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell. The ugly symbol of the Cold War was built to keep East Germans from escaping to the West. A decades-long fight to flee brought it down.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.
Dec 15, 2009 · The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, an East German Communist Party spokesman announced a series of new policies ...
