History Day Topic Guide: Building the Berlin Wall: Home

berlin wall  When the Berlin Wall opened 30 years ago, it created a fracture in the Iron Curtain and allowed safe passage out of Soviet territory But the On 9 November, 1989, thousands climbed the Wall that had divided East and West Berlin

Berlin Wall Documents on the history of the Berlin Wall, beginning with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany following WWII and the history of the wall's The Berlin Wall was constructed by the East German government in 1961 It cut off West Berlin from East Berlin and surrounding East Germany

The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989  The Berlin Wall, the former border fortification of the GDR, stood between 1961 and 1989 and separated the western part of the city from the eastern part