Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The fall of the Berlin Wall ... The evening of 9 November 1989 is known as the night the Wall came down. [42] Walking through Checkpoint Charlie, 10 November 1989.
The Day the Wall Came Down (1996) by Veryl Goodnight, a statue depicting horses leaping over actual pieces of the Berlin Wall In 1982, the West-German artist Elsner [ de ] created about 500 artworks along the former border strip around West Berlin as part of his work series Border Injuries .
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the ...
One quiet moment Harris captured was of an elderly man in East Berlin, carrying shopping bags filled with potatoes, just two days before the wall fell. “He would have been 65-70, a war veteran ...
The following day, The New York Times carried Reagan’s picture on the front page, below 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 1989. [3]
The Malta Summit took place between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 2–3 December 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a meeting which contributed to the end of the Cold War [114] partially as a result of the broader pro-democracy movement. It was their second meeting following a ...
Today's Google Doodle celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the end of the Cold War and signalled an end to 28 years of segregation between East and West Germans.
The week after, the number more than doubled to 320,000. Many of those people started to cross into East Berlin, without a shot being fired. [2] This pressure and other key events eventually led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, marking the imminent end of the socialist GDR regime.