AOL Web Search

  1. About 42,300,000 search results
  1. Web results:
  2. Berlin Wall - History, Dates & the Fall | HISTORY

    www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall

    The Berlin Wall was a barbed wire and concrete barrier constructed in 1961 by the Communist government of East Germany at the border of East and West Berlin.

  3. Berlin Wall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

    The Berlin Wall ( German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ] ( listen)) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) [a] (GDR).

  4. Berlin Wall | Definition, Length, & Facts | Britannica

    www.britannica.com/topic/Berlin-Wall

    Berlin Wall, German Berliner Mauer, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989.

  5. Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world

    www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048

    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.

  6. Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell - National Geographic

    www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why...

    West Germans scale the Berlin Wall before East German guards as the Cold War barrier came down in November 1989. Photograph by Hesse, ullstein bild/Getty History & Culture Explainer Why the...

  7. All About the Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall - ThoughtCo

    www.thoughtco.com/the-berlin-wall-28-year...

    Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was nearly as instantaneous as its creation.

  8. Berlin Wall Facts | Britannica

    www.britannica.com/facts/Berlin-Wall

    Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. The system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin and extended a further 75 miles around West Berlin.