The Fall of the Berlin Wall

berlin wall  Berlin Wall : East Germany and the Frontiers of Power New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 Rottman , Gordon L The Berlin Wall and the Intra The Berlin Wall was constructed by the East German government in 1961 It cut off West Berlin from East Berlin and surrounding East Germany

According to German historian Hans-Hermann Hertle in his work Berlin Wall: Monument of the Cold War, between 1961 and when the wall finally came The Cold War in Berlin Two years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy paid a historic visit to Berlin to challenge Soviet oppression

The Berlin Wall as a political symbol When Ronald Reagan addressed these words to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in June of 1987, few believed that just two Fifty years ago on August 13, 1961, the East Germans sealed their border with West Berlin, beginning what would become known as the Berlin Wall Overnight,