In Focus: 20 years since the wall came down

7 November 2009 will mark the 20^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall which reunited East and West Germany. Check out the resources below to find out more about this significant event in history.

The Brandenburg Gate, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

Resources

• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Online Exhibit
• History of the Berlin Wall, how it worked… Interactive article from HowStuffWorks
• Interactive online exhibit Newseum.org
• ‘Autumn of Change’ CNN special
• The Berlin Wall, 20 years later E-book, America.gov
  

Multimedia

• “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech by John F. Kennedy delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin
• Photo gallery Time Magazine gallery
• ‘The Wall’ Statistics about the Berlin Wall
• Building the wall Photo gallery, America.gov
• Fleeing west Photo gallery, America.gov
• “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall’ Photo gallery, America.gov
• Modernity - after the wall Photo gallery, America.gov