BERLIN -- In the evening hours of Nov. 9, 1989 the world watched as East Berliners climbed over the wall for the first time, celebrating a newfound hope and freedom. The wall came down peacefully ...

Reflecting back now on those 25 years, Reese smiles. "Two monumental things happened in my life. Berlin Wall came down and the state of West Virginia went Republican!," he laughed.

Here’s some background information about the Berlin Wall, which enclosed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in an attempt to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West. It became a symbol of East/West ...

Many Americans point to President Reagan's June 1987 "Tear down this wall" speech as a key moment in making the fall of the Berlin Wall a reality, but fewer recall the essential role played by ...

Captured just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kosche’s black-and-white photographs reveal a world suspended between resilience and resignation, grit and beauty.

Germany on Saturday marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered in the end of communism and national reunification, as the Western alliance that helped secure those achievements ...

It only became widely known after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Once the wall fell, the speech seemed to have summed up and even predicted the final phase of the Cold War.