What were some events that led to the falling of the Berlin Wall?

Answer 1

The Berlin Wall stood from 1961 until 1989. During this time - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech and JFK was assassinated in 1963, The Beatles gave their first concert in America in 1964, Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, MLK and Robert Kennedy were assassinated in 1968, the moon landing occurred in 1969, the 26th constitutional amendment was passed in the United States. In 1978 the first 'test-tube' baby was born in England and the Jamestown mass suicide occurred. The Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor incident occurred in 1979. In 1986 the Challenger space shuttle explodes.

Answer 2

Fall of the Berlin Wall:

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response, the East German government closed its borders entirely. By October 1989, huge demonstrations had broken out Struggles for Democracy 1053

in cities across East Germany. The protesters demanded the right to travel freely, and later added the demand for free elections. Honecker lost his authority with the party and resigned on October 18. In June 1987, President Reagan had stood before the Berlin Wall and demanded:

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Two years later, the wall was indeed about to come down. The new East German leader, Egon Krenz,

boldly gambled that he could restore stability by allowing people to leave East Germany. On November 9, 1989, he opened the Berlin Wall. The long-divided

city of Berlin erupted in joyous celebration. Krenz's

dramatic gamble to save communism did not work. By the end of 1989, the East German Communist Party had ceased to exist

Answer 3

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier 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.[1] The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls,[2] which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist statein East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.

The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that neighbouring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified.[3] The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame"-a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt-while condemning the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB), which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, from where they could then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the wall prevented almost all such emigration.[4] During this period, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with an estimated death toll of over 100[5] in and around Berlin, although that claim is disputed.[6]

In 1989, a series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, a euphoric public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of the rest. The physical Wall itself was primarily destroyed in 1990. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.

Answer 4

tHE bERLIN WALL WAS A HUGELEY SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN BERLIIN!

Answer 5

9th of November 1989

Answer 6

Hungarians opened their border