The Berlin Wall: Division and Reunification of Germany

Revolutions 1989 AD Contemporary 🇩🇪 Germany 925 views

The Berlin Wall, built overnight in August 1961, became the most potent symbol of the Cold War's division of the world. Its fall on 9 November 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet era.

A City DividedAt the end of the Second World War, Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four occupation zones controlled by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. As the Cold War hardened, the western zones merged into West Germany and the Soviet zone became East German...

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