Berlin Wall
a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
Berlin Wall | Definition, Length, & Facts | Britannica
Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the ...
The Berlin Wall - Stiftung Berliner Mauer
On August 13, 1961, the SED began to seal off the borders around West Berlin, first with barbed wire and a few days later with walls. It hoped this measure ...
Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world - BBC
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 ...
What Was The Berlin Wall And How Did It Fall? - The Cold War | IWM
The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily ...
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall | 4 Corners of the World
This blog everything audio recordings, books, films, videos, legislation, manuscripts/mixed materials, maps, notated music, newspapers, periodicals, personal ...
Berlin Wall · Gedenkstättenareal. Image: Stiftung Berliner Mauer/J. · Remains of the Wall. Berlin's conservation authorities have been working since 1990 to ...
The Berlin Wall Falls and USSR Dissolves - Short History
during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall—a barrier that for almost 30 years had symbolized the Cold War ...
Berlin Wall Memorial - Stiftung Berliner Mauer
The Berlin Wall Memorial offers several different history and civic education formats. To the educational programs Historical Site
Where the Wall once stood · Berlin Wall Memorial in Berlin-Reinickendorf · The Berlin Wall Memorial · East Side Gallery · Checkpoint Charlie · Brandenburg Gate.
Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell - National Geographic
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 Berlin Wall came down 35 years ago today. Fragments of the ...
The 96-mile-long wall was built by the communist regime to cut off East Germany from the supposed ideological contamination of the West and to ...
Berlin Wall | HISTORY , Dates & The Fall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or ...
Declassified: Building the Berlin Wall, 13-Aug.-1961 - NATO
Before dawn on 13 August 1961, construction began on a wall that would divide Berlin in two and come to symbolise the Cold War for the next 28 years.
History of the Berlin Wall and its fall visualized with videos and ...
1990 01:02 Politics, West, East October 03, 1990 Germany reunited 00:56 Politics, West October 02, 1990 Allied control ends 01:53 Contemporary Witnesses, ...
The Berlin Wall - Ronald Reagan Library
The Berlin Wall. This wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Berlin Wall | Wilson Center Digital Archive
Berlin Wall. Documents on the history of the Berlin Wall, beginning with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany following WWII and the history of the wall's ...
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resulting negotiations from the Potsdam Conference, held between July 17 and August 2, divided Germany and Berlin among the United States, Soviet Union, Britain ...
How the Berlin Wall Worked - YouTube
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After the Berlin Wall: Europe's Struggle to Overcome Its Divisions
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 laid the groundwork for new institutions, new states, and, in some cases, new conflicts. In the more than three decades ...
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
EventThe fall of the Berlin Wall 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.
Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Book by Anna FunderStasiland by Anna Funder is a book first published in Australia by Text Publishing in 2002 about individuals who resisted the East German regime, and others who worked for its secret police, the Stasi.
East Side Gallery
Memorial in Berlin, GermanyThe East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree.