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Berlin Wall - Wikipedia
22 Apr 2024 at 11:41am
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [b???li?n? ?ma??] ?) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).

Berlin Wall | Definition, Length, & Facts | Britannica
21 Apr 2024 at 1:15pm
Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin and extended a further 75 miles around West Berlin.

Berlin Wall | HISTORY , Dates & The Fall | HISTORY
21 Apr 2024 at 3:10pm
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night,...

Why the Berlin Wall rose?and how it fell - National Geographic
21 Apr 2024 at 10:05pm
November 08, 2019. ? 6 min read. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier that snaked through the city, serving as an ugly symbol of the Cold War....

Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world - BBC
22 Apr 2024 at 5:14am
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. East...

Fall of the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia
22 Apr 2024 at 3:20am
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [?ma????fal] ?) on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain.

The Berlin Wall | Berlin Wall Foundation - Stiftung Berliner Mauer
18 Apr 2024 at 11:34pm
The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin.

What Was The Berlin Wall And How Did It Fall? - The Cold War | IWM
20 Apr 2024 at 2:06pm
An East German observation tower seen through 23 January 1990. The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily guarded, mined corridor of land known as the 'death strip'.

The fall of the Berlin Wall: The moment that reshaped Europe - BBC
19 Apr 2024 at 12:56pm
On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall that had long divided the city and its inhabitants crumbled. In this exclusive BBC Archive clip as part of the new series In History, Brian Hanrahan reports...

Berlin Wall Facts | Britannica
19 Apr 2024 at 2:12am
Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin and extended a further 75 miles around West Berlin.



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