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The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlinâs Communist Party announced a change in his cityâs relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the countryâs borders.ntroduction. On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete âAntifascistischer Schutzwall,â or âantifascist bulwark,â between East and West Berlin.
The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and the division of East from West until its destruction in the fall of 1989. Timeline 1948, June: Berlin airlift began. 1949, May: Berlin airlift ended.1961, 3-5 August: Politburo decided to close the border between East and West Berlin.elated Events Berlin Air Lift Germany 1945 Nikita Khrushchev John F. Kennedy 1989 Berlin Wall Comes Down. 1  Berlin Wall, a personal view of Berlin and the effect of the Berlin wall on the city and its inhabitants by Chris De Witt (contains photographs).