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.

2009年12月15日 · 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 Potsdam...

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.

2024年12月18日 · When did the Berlin Wall fall? The border between East and West Germany was opened on November 9, 1989, following anti-government protests in East Germany and the of other eastern and central European states. Sections of the Berlin Wall were subsequently torn down by East German border guard crews and residents of a reunified Berlin.

More than 100 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over the course of its 28-year history. But the Wall was just one part of the larger 'inner German border' that separated East and West Germany, and hundreds more were killed trying to cross other fortified border points.

2019年11月8日 · The Berlin Wall stretched for almost 27 miles across the city and employed landmines, dogs, and barbed wire to discourage escape attempts. Still, over 5,000 people managed to reach western Europe.

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, making way for the free movement of people between East and West Germany. Why and how did the Berlin Wall fall?

2019年11月7日 · On a global level, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the symbolic end of the Cold War, famously prompting the political scientist Francis Fukuyama to declare it the “end of history.”

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Like the murder of John F Kennedy or a man stepping foot on the Moon, it was one of those ‘where were you’ when it happened moment. Tomorrow, Saturday (November 9), is the 35th anniversary of the fall. But how did it happen? And how did it leave Germany forever changed in its wake?

The dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of the Cold War, triggering the reunification of Germany, the subsequent dissolution of the USSR and the reshaping of Europe. Explore the story of one of the most iconic and defining moments of the 20th century.