when did the berlin wall come down?
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1989 due to the fall of communism between East and West Germany.  I have actually held some of the wall and it is so awesome to think it was once a great divider
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The final is July the 9th in Berlin
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"Cold War" is an informal expression that, by its definition, does not refer to a period of armed conflict.  Therefore, there is no clear date on which it ended.  Historians typically choose dates that "seem best" to them in terms of saying when the period of US-Soviet confrontation came to an end.  Was it when Solidarity won Polish elections?  Was it when the Berlin Wall came down?  When the Romanians executed their dictator?  When the USSR became the CIS?  Some other event?  Those are dates you can find online, with a little effort.  Deciding which one was when the Cold War ended is going to be up to you.
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Wall March and Wall April
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21 November 2006\n\nArsenal - Hamburg
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put up a huge brick wall like the Berlin wall was.
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Berlin was the capital before WWII and after Germany lost the war it was devided in sections between Russia and the Allies due to disagreements on how Germanys future shoudl look like.\n\nWhen the Federal Republic of Germany got created, they made Bonn the new capital.\n\nAfter Germany's re-union, Berlin became the capital again.
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Hey Junior (ABOVE): You said "Well that seems stupid to me a while back the US was against the wall that divided two european countries i am not sure if it was germany. But now they want to do that in their own country that is stupid..."\n\nJust so you can be more informed: That wall didn't divide two countries. It divided West Germany from East Germany (What once was and now again is one country: GERMANY.) In fact it was even built in the middle of a city (Berlin) making two cities...East Berlin and West Berlin. And the wall was used to keep East Germans locked into the country like prisoners. The West was free and the East was controlled by the Soviets. The wall we are talking about along the southern border of the US would be between two sovereign nations and would be built to keep would-be lawbreakers from entering unchecked and unwanted. If I were you, I wouldn't go around comparing current events to history until I get my history all figured out. ;D
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The East German government, which was a surrogate of communist Russia, built the Berlin wall.  The purpose of the wall was to separate the two Germany's, but more importantly, to keep the east Berliners from escaping to the west.  To freedom.\nThe wall idea was conceived by the communist party.  It was finally torn down because the soviet influence and financial resources had gone south.  The Russians could no longer subsidize east Germany.  In the meantime, other pressures were being brought to bear.  In Poland, the labor unions were turning on the communist party.  In Russia itself, the idea of a democracy was becoming a reality.  These events overwhelmed the communist party and it was forced to capitulate to the will of the people.
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A key problem for the Soviets had been the fact that large numbers of people were leaving East Berlin and migrating to the West. This posed a fundamental challenge to Soviet claims that the communist system was superior to the Western capitalist model, particularly given the stark difference between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin. The creation of the Berlin wall put an emphatic stop to the movement of people between East and West Berlin, helping to stabilize a dangerous flashpoint between the USA and the USSR in the process.
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Berlin - Olympiastadion on 9 JULY 2006.
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2/11/1985; 2/11/1986........2/11/2006!\n\nWhen Hitler's Aryans lost to our African-Americans in the Olympics!\n\nWhen the slaves were free.\nWhen segregation was made illegal.\nWhen Jesus died for our sins.\nWhen the Chinese were finally allowed to become American citzens.\nWhen women recieved their voting rights.\n\nANYTIME AN INJUSTICE WAS REMOVED!
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The formal surrender of Japan aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945, marking the end of  World War II.\n\n(Italy having surrendered in September 1943 & Germany in May 1945).
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I think its stupid! Why were we so upset about the berlin wall but yet we are putting up a wall between us now! Dumb if you  ask me. We already have laws and should have enforced them first.
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Russia is no longer a communist country. It change with Gorbachav when the Berlin wall was demolished.
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Date arm closed to visitors:     1916\nOn July 30, 1916, during World War I, German saboteurs blew up a cache of dynamite at nearby Black Tom Wharf in New Jersey. The explosion did extensive structural damage to the buildings on Ellis Isalnd, and popped some bolts out of the Statue of Liberty's right arm. Officials closed the monument for about a week. When the monument re-opened, and ever since, the arm has been off limits to tourists.
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After World War II, Germany was divided into 4 sectors of the powers that occupied Germany at the time being.\n\nAmerican, British, French and Soviet sectors.\n\nBerlin happened to be located where the Soviet sector was but Berlin was itself divided into American, British, French and Soviet sectors with the Soviets in control of the East and the West divided into American, British and French sectors.\n\nThe Soviet sector of Germany became East Germany but the American, British and French sectors of Germany became West Germany.\n\nAmerica, Britain and France maintained a portion of control over their sectors of West Berlin but West Berlin officially became part of West Germany inspite of being surrounded by East Germany.\n\nEast Germans use to flock to West Berlin to reach Freedom until a Wall was built to block any chances of escaping.\n\nBut in 1989 the Berlin Wall began being torn down and in 1990 West and East reunified as one Country with East going under same Government as West, and Berlin was unified as well so in 1991 America, Britain and France gave up whatever power they had left over their sectors of West Berlin.