9 nov 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
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-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.
-Berlin Wall's fall marked the end of the Cold War for the American public.
-Germany was reunified, triggering the swift collapse of the other East European regimes affecting the Soviet Union.
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