1989 Cold War Fall of the Berlin Wall.

And it actually happened again, with the fall of the Berlin wall.

Mr President, it was yearning for democracy that brought down the Berlin Wall.

Mr President, it was yearning for democracy that brought down the Berlin Wall.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the necessity that had been driving containment disappeared.

We were trying to articulate the new security order in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History in 1989 in anticipation of the fall of the Berlin wall.

In Germany, the 102,000 Jews registered with the Jewish community are a slowly declining population, despite the immigration of tens of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This pattern has recurred throughout history, from the French Revolution all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the number of actively anti religious regimes has reduced considerably.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and, more recently, the Arab Spring are clear examples of this dynamic.

The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.

In 1989, Merkel got involved in the growing democracy movement after the fall of the Berlin Wall, joining the new party Democratic Awakening.

Her period in office coincided with the crumbling of Soviet communism in Europe, which culminated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Albanian regime also collapsed, and, with it, Stalinism was in crisis.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism.

The Berlin wall was erected in 1961.

The Allied Museum in the Dahlem district of Berlin hosted a number of events to mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall falls. We do Desert Storm.

It was in 1989 that the Berlin Wall was taken down.

With the rise of neo Nazism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worried that people were too accepting of intolerance, as they were in the 1930s.

Produced a few years after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, A Great Day for Freedom juxtaposes the general euphoria of, for instance, the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the subsequent wars and ethnic cleansing, particularly in Yugoslavia.

To this day, some people (especially those who were close to Craxi) argue that some parties (such as the Italian Communist Party) were left untouched, while the leaders of then ruling coalition (and in particular Bettino Craxi) were wiped off the political map.

In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin on 12 June 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear down the wall as a symbol of increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc The Fall Hungary effectively disabled its physical border defenses with Austria on 19 August 1989 and, in September, more than 13,000 East German tourists escaped through Hungary to Austria.

Dissolution of the Soviet Union In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union and relaxed central control, in accordance with reform policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).

Later, the first space station was launched by the Soviet space program.

From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall.

Mr President, it was yearning for democracy that brought down the Berlin Wall.

Maybe we could look at that to be more similar to the falling of the Berlin Wall, where a divide that had kept two types of people apart had collapsed and opened up a door for further communication.

It comprised the eastern regions of Berlin and consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization was drawn into the breakup of Yugoslavia, and conducted its first military interventions in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and later Yugoslavia in 1999.

Cold War When the Cold War emerged, the building was physically within West Berlin, but only a few metres from the border of East Berlin, which ran around the back of the building and in 1961 was closed by the Berlin Wall.

The French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once described the Berlin Wall as a mirror.

Although the Arab Spring s historic significance was initially likened to that of the fall of the Berlin Wall, mounting concern about the Muslim Brotherhood s increasing political influence is overshadowing the positive potential of change in the region.

Instead, Hitler declares, I will defeat them in Berlin, or face my downfall.

At the same time, Europe s leaders are under pressure from a new generation of voters, who grew up in the shadow of the Berlin Wall s collapse.

MADRID The triumph of democracy and market based economics the End of History, as the American political philosopher Francis Fukuyama famously called it which was proclaimed to be inevitable with the fall of the Berlin Wall, soon proved to be little more than a mirage.

European integration led to the formation of the Council of Europe and the European Union in Western Europe, both of which have been expanding eastward since the revolutions of 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

1962 East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

The event has been named Tear Down This Wall a reference to Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech in West Berlin, addressed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop East Germans from escaping to West Germany, became a symbol of the Cold War, hence its fall in 1989 became a symbol of the Fall of Communism, German Reunification and Die Wende .

The Berlin Wall () was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.

When the Berlin Wall was opened a month later, partly owing to an East German mistake, Bush was criticized for his low key response.

And after the Berlin Wall fell, the Navy made these systems available to whale bio acousticians to see what they could hear.

In November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, and in July 1990 Waters staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history, The Wall Live in Berlin , on the vacant terrain between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.