In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing.

During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall came to represent Germany’s divided nation and capital. Though mostly dismantled now, it remains a potent presence, marked by sites that hark back to a ...

Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

Berlin Wall Memorial (Berlin) Though primarily associated with the later years of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall Memorial ...

BERLIN – In January 1989, then-East German leader Erich Honecker declared that the Berlin Wall could stand for another century. Less than 10 months later the border was open, and soon Berliners ...

Germany is preparing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Saturday. Built in 1961 by the Communist government of East Germany, the wall was meant to stop the flood of ...

American History TV visited the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., to tour their exhibit on Cold War Berlin. Lead curator Alexis Albion explained how the city came to be divided after ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. That night, Germans celebrated the move by tearing the wall down.Watch the video above to learn more.The ...

On November 9th, 1989, in a remarkable display of people power, the Berlin Wall collapsed. The collapse of the Berlin Wall was due in large part to President Ronald Reagan’s “Peace Through ...

Legvold and others said the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War. “The institutional basis for the Cold War, so far as it was focused in Europe, disappeared because the Warsaw ...