On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, stood before the Brandenburg Gate and exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down ...

Pres. Ronald Reagan gives the famous Brandenburg Gate speech in West Berlin.

The heavily fortified border —the Berlin Wall— plugged the last gap between East and West. On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

US President Ronald Reagan, standing before the Berlin Wall, famously challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘Mr.

As the country prepares to mark three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German government has told Sky News that it's still battling significant differences between the East and West ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year ...

Few people can look at Berlin’s ugly Wall without wanting ... sealed each one off before any East Berliners could flee to freedom. The Reds blamed the West for the blasts; Western observers ...

Germans commemorated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which on Nov. 9, 1989, ended a years-long divide between East and West Germany. Twenty five years ago Sunday ...

They patrolled the most heavily guarded border in the world. The Grenztruppen were East Germany’s frontline against the ...

East and West Berliners flocked to the wall and began tearing it down. The wall was soon destroyed and Berlin was unified for the first time since 1945. The destruction of the Berlin Wall is ...

As the country prepares to mark three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German government has told Sky News that it's still battling significant differences between the East and West ...

Oct. 7, 1961: A West German police officer stands guard as East German workers construct the Berlin Wall. On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist East German government announced that all citizens would be ...