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Fall of the Berlin Wall. Part of the Revolutions of 1989. Germans stand on top of the Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, before this section was torn down on December 9 1989 in the hours before the West German leader walked through the Gate to greet his East German counterpart. Date. 9 November 1989; 34 years ago (1989-11-09) Time.
The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to ... The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the ... United States and UK sources had expected the Soviet sector to ...
Alexanderplatz demonstration. The Alexanderplatz demonstration (German: Alexanderplatz-Demonstration) was a demonstration for political reforms and against the government of the German Democratic Republic on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin on Saturday 4 November 1989. With between half a million and a million protesters it was one of the largest ...
Monday demonstrations in East Germany. The Monday demonstrations helped to bring down the Berlin Wall. The Monday demonstrations (German: Montagsdemonstrationen in der DDR) were a series of peaceful political protests against the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) that took place in towns and cities around the country on various ...
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the ...
Cold War European Military Alliances. This is an English language bibliography of scholarly books and articles on the Cold War. Because of the extent of the Cold War (in terms of time and scope), the conflict is well documented. The Cold War (Russian: холо́дная война́, holodnaya voĭna) was the global situation from around 1947 ...
The Malta Summit took place between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 2–3 December 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a meeting which contributed to the end of the Cold War [123] partially as a result of the broader pro-democracy movement. It was their second meeting following a ...
In 2009, Hildebrandt reported of 245 dead caused by the Wall. According to her research, the first Wall victim was a suicidal GDR officer and not Ida Siekmann, as Hildebrandt also included border guards that committed suicide and cold cases of bodies found in boundary waters in her list.