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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.
15 gru 2009 · Learn about the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War that divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Find out when it was built, why it was built, how it was crossed and how it fell.
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.
The Brandenburg Gate, a few meters from the Berlin Wall, reopened on 22 December 1989, with demolition of the Wall beginning on 13 June 1990 and concluding in 1994. [1] The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.
7 lis 2019 · On a global level, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the symbolic end of the Cold War, famously prompting the political scientist Francis Fukuyama to declare it the “end of history.”
8 lis 2019 · The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West and was torn down in 1989 after a mass protest movement. Learn about the history and significance of this Cold War symbol and its impact on Germany and the world.
8 lis 2023 · On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall crumbled. This exclusive BBC Archive clip reveals the night when people flooded over the border for an emotional, anarchic reunion.
