The leaders of the two German states at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall were:
West Germany: Helmut Kohl
East Germany: Erich Honneker (ironically the man responsible for overseeing its construction in the first place)
Walter Ulbricht was the East German premier.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was leader of the Soviet Union.
The Berlin Wall was built in Germany in August of 1961. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East Germany and East Berlin from West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1990 which allowed for unification of West and East Berlin.
the Berlin wall was built on Sunday August 13, 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR.) They built it so East Germans could not escape from the Soviet Union.
stop trade between East and West Berlin
They built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Putting it very simply: the Cold War partitioning of Berlin and the fact that many people in East Berlin were fleeing across the border to West Berlin and freedom. The communist government built the wall to prevent these people from fleeing.
The Berlin Wall was built in Germany in August of 1961. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East Germany and East Berlin from West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1990 which allowed for unification of West and East Berlin.
built the Berlin Wall (:A+
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
The Berlin wall
No it was an actuall wall.
The city of East Berlin was a tourist city , in East Germany as they had built the infamous wall , called the wall of Berlin.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to West Germany.
The Berlin Wall was built to stop east Germans from travelling to west Germany.
The Berlin Wall
...keep the East Germans out of West Berlin.
Egon Krenz was the leader of East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell.
Nikita Chruschev.