05/11/2019 · 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.

10/11/2009 · On the 9th of November, 1989, the Berlin Wall is opened after nearly three decades keeping East and West Berliners apart.

The fall of the Wall signified the end of an era in world politics. The events of November 9th, 1989 not only led to the demise of East Germany, but also to German reunification.

09/11/1989 · The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete

11/08/2021 · A combination of factors brought down the wall on 9 November 1989, as the immediate actions of Soviet individuals collided with years of growing discontent from East to West. “Down with the wall!” By 1989, the states of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc were experiencing growing unrest and the rise of solidarity movements.

09/11/2019 · For the first half of 1989, it was still nearly impossible to get out of East Germany: The last killing at the wall took place in February that year, the last shooting, a close miss, in April.

07/09/2021 · Berlin Wall was a wall erected by the Soviets in 1961, between East and West Berlin. It was officially built by the Soviet power to keep the 'fascists' out of East Germany. This wall, which signified the ideological differences between the 'communist' East and the 'democratic' West was torn down by a swarm of people in 1989.