Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 · Event
East Germany opens its border crossings after a botched Politburo announcement; thousands of East Berliners stream into the West. Symbolic end of the Iron Curtain and trigger for German reunification.
On these timelines: Germany, Master, Cold War
More from Germany
- The Reformation (1517)
- German unification (1871)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Around 1989
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)
- Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet) (1994)
- Glasnost and perestroika (1985)