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.

Nov 5, 2019 · How did the Wall come down? 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...

Dec 15, 2009 · To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. As World War II came to an end in 1945, a pair of Allied peace conferences at Yalta and...

Oct 24, 2016 · In November 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Germany and the world. It wasn't just about a wall coming down. It was about freedom and ending a big split between East and West Germany.

O n June 12, 1987 — more than 25 years after the Berlin Wall first divided the city’s East and West — U.S. President Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in...

Nov 1, 2019 · The Berlin Wall came down on the evening of November 9, 1989, during a hastily arranged international press conference in East Berlin. Günter Schabowski, an official in East Germany’s ruling Socialist Unity Party, ambled to the podium clutching some papers.

Nov 20, 2019 · After standing upright and separating families for nearly three decades (around 1036 days), the Berlin Wall finally came crashing down on November 9, 1989. The collapse of the Berlin Wall happened in the same manner as it was built – abruptly.

Nov 8, 2023 · On the evening of 9 November 1989, the BBC's Brian Hanrahan stood amid scenes of jubilation witnessing a moment of history, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Wall was finally breached by jubilant Berliners on 9 November 1989, unifying a city that had been divided for over 30 years. I was in Berlin on 9 November 1989. I was a US Army...

In the face of a repressive regime and against significant odds, the people of Berlin—of East Germany—had brought down the Wall that had divided them for 28 years. The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War, heralding a seismic shift in global politics.