In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

In 1961, the city was split into two by the Berlin Wall. Two new Germanys were created ... So that the public can peer down through the glass onto the politicians debating below.

When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...

You really feel that energy. Everyone wants to come here. For me, this is the place where the Berlin Wall came down, because I vividly remember sitting at home with my mom, watching TV.

The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing down of the wall at Checkpoint Charlie and other places. While there, we celebrated New ...

When the Berlin Wall came down in the autumn of 1989, Sasha and Vera were two single mothers, each with seven-year-old sons, sharing a two-room apartment in a Moscow suburb. They were the odd couple.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of a monumental moment in history—the fall of the Berlin ... the Wall that divided East and West Germany for nearly three decades came crumbling down.

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was probably the closest the world came to nuclear war ... The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

America has no foreign policy. For the first 40 years of my life, “contain communism” was the two-word summary of America’s goal on the world stage. Then, 35 years ago, ...