USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall-the Berlin Wall-to permanently close off access to the West.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of a new chapter in our history. The Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 paved the way for the reunification of Germany and reunification of Europe after more than 40 years of political and economic division between the West and the East.

Detailed explanation-3: -The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and, eventually, the Soviet Union. Soviet-occupied East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic, was reunited with West Germany on October 3, 1990. And the Soviet Union collapsed a year later.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the Potsdam conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin, the capital city situated in Soviet territory, was also divided into four occupied zones.

Detailed explanation-5: -Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today, ” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.” The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.