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Fall of the Berlin Wall

The opening of the border between East and West Berlin on 9 November 1989.

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Dates
9 Nov 1989
Place
Berlin
Also known as
Opening of the Berlin Wall

On 9 November 1989 East Germany opened its borders and Berliners began tearing down the Wall. According to the United States government, the momentum behind it came from Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision to loosen Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

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  1. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    But just as the Wall had come to represent the division of Europe, its fall came to represent the end of the Cold War.
    On November 9, 1989, thousands of jubilant Germans brought down the most visible symbol of division at the heart of Europe—the Berlin Wall.
  2. The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Gorbachev’s decision to loosen the Soviet yoke on the countries of Eastern Europe created an independent, democratic momentum that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989
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