Introduction Gorbachev is a very controversial figure in history. ... Gorbachev's reforms were responsible for the Eastern revolution of 1989. ... Those reforms were used against Gorbachev in the revolutions of 1989. ... By making USSR into a democratic country he was expunging all of Soviet history; USSR was never democratic and was not ready for it. ... His reforms and the implementation of them eventually lead to the revolutions of 1989. ...

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The film concludes with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. ... Though Von Trotta's subordinates the history of the German divide it still plays a huge part in the film. ... I always think people are not living up history like historians but very fragmentary, in an individual and personal way. In this case the love story is conditioned by the wall and by great history. ... In the final scene as thousands of east and west Germans meet in the streets on that November night in 1989, Konrad and Sophie at last meet in a unified country. ...

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Throughout world history there have been events that caused America to cheer and events that caused America to cry and take action. ... On November 9, 1989, the East German government ended its restrictions on emigration and travel to the West by its citizens. ... Giacona remembers, she was home on June 4, 1989, watching the news. ... The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 made Mrs. ...

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As a young adult in 1989, I remember the joyous displays of people crossing the border from East Germany to West Germany. I was unknowledgeable about the significance of the "fall of the Berlin Wall", but I understood through the media that it was an important historical event of the twentieth century and would surely become a significant part of world history. ... In August of 1989, Hungary removed border restrictions with Austria, resulting in more than 13,000 East Germans escaping to West Germany through Hungary (Duke). ... The new East German government removed travel restrictions for t...

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As a result, the situation emerging from 1945 and so on, was laying the foundations of a new chapter in history that would stamp European biography and global politics once and for all. ... On 9th November 1989, the gates were open and thousands of people flooded the roads of Berlin. ...

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Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have been developed causing a change in the course of history for nations and people. The Cold War was a major turning point in history. ... In response to the growing pressure, the wall was torn down in 1989. ... Throughout history, many political, economic and social conditions have often led to turning points that have changed the course of history for nations and people. ...

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Abstract The Soviet-Afghan war, in my opinion, is a very important and forgotten part of history. ... The Soviet-Afghan war was a very complex war, lasting from 1979 to 1989. ... By 1989, with their supplies cut and limited air power, the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan. ...

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His attempts to save Soviet communism became more difficult as all the former Soviet Eastern Bloc countries broke away from the USSR by 1989. ... The first and mightiest society based on the ideas of Karl Marx had passed into history.?...

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The History Of the Berlin Wall The scene that stuck the most to me was when they killed Peter Fechter. ... The Berlin Wall finally came down on Nov. 9, 1989. ... The history was pretty accurate on the account of the Berlin Wall. ...

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History and role of the Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was dominated by the Soviet Union. ... When it was clear that the Soviet Union would no longer use force to control the Warsaw Pact countries a series of rapid changes started in Eastern Europe in 1989. ... Poland since 1989 In the 1970's and 1980's the whole system in Poland was deeper and deeper in the crisis and was beginning to crumble as was the whole Eastern bloc with the USSR as the fading superpower. ... These talks broke off in October, but a new series, the "roundtable" talks, began in February 1989. ... In December ...

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This was the only existence in history of the world that a wall was erected to keep an entire people confined to one place, rather than to keep someone out. ... In 1989, one of the most dramatic postwar developments began taking place before the very eyes if a stunned world public, German Reunification. ...

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Hungary In 1946 Mr. Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. (Cold War) Once allies against Hitler, the Soviet Union and the United States confront each other at the end of WWII. (A Summary of the Cold War) The cold war w...

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