The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of...
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from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13...
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the title "Reagan Calls on Gorbachev to Tear Down the Berlin Wall". Its impact on the Kremlin became widely known after the fall of the Berlin Wall in...
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with the band. The show was held in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. A live album of the concert...
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Segments of the Berlin Wall have been given to various institutions since the fall of the wall on November 9, 1989. Segments are occasionally moved, so...
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9 November in German history (category History of Germany by period)
international repercussions. In particular the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the beginning of the November pogroms in 1938 (German: Kristallnacht...
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German reunification (redirect from Cost of unification of East and West Germany)
Revolutions of 1989 including a series of protests by the East German citizens, led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and GDR's first free...
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Peaceful Revolution (redirect from The Wende)
Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. 9 November 1989 – The fall of the Berlin Wall, enabling East Germans to travel freely to the west. 1...
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Brandenburg Gate (redirect from Berlin's Gate)
Cold War, until its fall in 1989, the gateway was obstructed by the Berlin Wall, and was for almost three decades a marker of the city's division. Since...
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demonstrations in cities of East Germany such as Leipzig and subsequently to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, which served as the symbolic gateway...
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arcade video game released by Kaneko in 1991; two years after the fall of the actual Berlin Wall. A Game Gear version was also released exclusively in Japan;...
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7th to 9th of November and coincides with the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. With the theme "Which are the next walls to fall in science...
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Thierry Noir (category Painters from Berlin)
in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin...
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East Germany (redirect from Democratic Republic of Germany)
in the GDR and abroad, one of the most notable being peaceful protests starting in the city of Leipzig, led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment...
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Egon Krenz (category Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
attempt to retain the Communist regime's grip on power. The SED gave up its monopoly of power some weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Krenz was...
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the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event paved the way for the ultimate reunification of Germany just short of a year later. Hundreds of thousands of East...
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The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the...
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The Berlin Style (also referred to as Berlin Classicism) is a neotraditional style of architecture that has developed in Germany since the fall of the...
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Germany. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, travel between the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin was completely uncontrolled, although...
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the Berlin Wall, which stood as a barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989. Before the construction of the...
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Berlin's club scene a premier nightlife venue. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many historic buildings in Mitte, the former city center of...
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Heinz Schäfer (category Berlin Wall)
least two significant European events of the Cold War, the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. On 27 October 1961, Soviet and US forces...
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Bornholmer Straße border crossing (category Berlin border crossings)
during the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Immediately after news of East Germany's somewhat mistaken announcement on the removal of border...
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Deutschland 89 (category Television series about the Cold War)
Jonas Nay as Martin Rauch, an agent of East Germany following the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It is a sequel to the 2015 series Deutschland 83, and 2018...
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replaced and the metal parts of the shed were repainted. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the traffic for the S-Bahn in Berlin as well as...
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East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's...
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written a few years before its release, approximately during the fall of the Berlin Wall, at a time when Cohen said he found himself reflecting on what...
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erection of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Crisis began in June 1961 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, meeting with US President John F. Kennedy at the Vienna...
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city's 750th anniversary. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ended the 28-year-long division of Berlin. On the morning of 9 November 1989, SED member...
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and the West Berlin S-Bahn system, and a border crossing into East Berlin. The system was reopened completely following the fall of the Berlin Wall and...
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