nov 9, 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall

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November 9, 1989. Berlin Wall's fall marked the end of the Cold War for the American public. News of the fall of the Berlin Wall had a dramatic impact on American public opinion 25 years ago. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.