In 1961, the Soviet government built a wall which separated the two halves of Berlin. East Germany was part of the communist Soviet Union and West Germany was free. It was not until the 1980s that there was evidence that Germany maybe united.
On November 11, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. This marked the end of the cold war.
President George H.W. Bush delivered this comment on the fall: “For 40 years, the seeds of democracy in Eastern Europe lay dormant, buried under the frozen tundra of the Cold War. And for 40 years the world has waited for the Cold War to end. And decade after decade, time after time, the flowering human spirit withered from the chill of conflict and oppression. And again the world waited. But the passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. The world has waited long enough. The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free.” (1)
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(1) U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany. A Europe Whole and Free. By George H W Bush.
31 May 1989. 29 Nov. 2006
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