It stood for 28 years, painfully dividing East and West Germany. But the Berlin Wall finally came down on November 9, 1989.

When Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989 he did so as the most popular US president since Eisenhower and the most influential president since F D Roosevelt.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, ... On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

When the wall came down there was a feeling of liberation. But now the barriers are being rebuilt – edifices of fear, both real and imaginary, are being constructed everywhere.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 during the Cold War to separate the Soviet-controlled East and the Democratic West. The wall, made of concrete and barbed wire, stood for 28 years.

More than three decades ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall which divided Germany literally and ideologically came tumbling down, just days after one million people gathered in East Berlin ...

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The Berlin Wall came down for a reason – the British version shows no sign of crumbling. Germany’s history over the past century is one of incredible upheaval and turbulence, yet its people ...

Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” So said President Ronald Reagan in a 1987 speech at West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. And on Nov. 8, 1989, after years of Soviet decline, that is indeed what ...

In this Sept. 12, 1990 file photo, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan uses a hammer and chisel on the defunct Berlin Wall to take symbolic swings at the old Cold War barrier, three years after he ...