This first bricks of the Berlin Wall were laid just over 60 years ago. We then had to wait 28 years, an eternity for many ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

It is all thanks to a Cornishman who was in Berlin in 1989, and ended up with a bigger souvenir than he bargained for ...

Erected in 1961, the Berlin Wall was demolished on November 9, 1989, after 28 years of deep divisions. A global symbol of the ...

As the world observes the 20th anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor of History and University Scholar James F. Tent, Ph.D., is available ...

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin ... Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for 28 years at the front line of the Cold War between the Americans and ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall -- symbol of the Cold War and the division between an Eastern and a Western Bloc -- contributed to the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe and the reunification of ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

which is on display at London’s Imperial War Museum The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 is remembered as one of the defining moments of the 20th Century, acting as the precursor to the ...

Independent producers Carl… On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans celebrated the event that came to symbolize the end of the Cold War. Jeffrey Brown reports.