(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of ...
Editor’s note: Story was originally published on Nov. 9. 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its ...
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall was torn down. Now, original segments of the wall are on display in front of 5900 Wilshire, across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. While it ...
A section of the Berlin Wall, gifted to Hudson County more than 15 years ago, has finally found its permanent home in Secaucus’ Laurel Hill Park. Hudson County Executive Craig Guy unveiled the new ...
Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for ...
The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years. Daily life in the Soviet Union was a mixture of dread and horror—children taught to report their parents’ whispered doubts, families queuing for hours for bread ...
On November 9, 1989, Art Harman, a then-young U.S. public policy expert living in McLean, Virginia, was watching television and, like the rest of the world, was awed by what he saw. News anchors on ...
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