The Berlin Wall was finally torn down in 1989, signifying the ..... of the communist control of Eastern Europe and an end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WORLD WAR II

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The Berlin Wall was finally torn down in 1989, signifying the ____ of the communist control of Eastern Europe and an end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.

A	beginning
B	expansion
C	growth
D	collapse

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Because of its psychological as well as its physical significance, the fall of the Berlin Wall quickly became the symbol of the collapse of the communist ideology it had shielded.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fall of the Wall marked the first critical step towards German reunification, which formally concluded a mere 339 days later on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of East Germany and the official reunification of the German state along the democratic lines of the West German Basic Law.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.

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