Introduction
A big event about the Cold War was when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It was a symbol of divided world, serving basically as a concrete barrier for nearly three decades dividing East and West Berlin. Physical reunification and a blast of a new turn in international relations was its collapse.
Background
The Berlin Wall went up in 1961 in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was basically to prevent East Berliners leaving to democratic West Berlin. The wall was a heavily fortified border — literally — made up of guard towers, barbed wire, minefields. It virtually split the city in two, visibly dividing it in half between communist East and capitalist West.
The Fall and its Significance
In November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. It was a surprise. Several factors factored in including the fact that the influence of Western ideals alongside East Germany popular unrest and the worsening of the Soviet Union’s economy all helped fuel that pressure.
The collapse of the wall had several significant impacts on the Cold War:
1. Symbolic End of the Cold War
The ending of the Cold War was the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were the collapse of the Iron Curtain, a rejection of communist ideologies. The event gave people hope that things would change that freedom would come for those who are living under oppressive regimes all around the world.
2. Reunification of Germany
Even after the wall fell, East and West Germany were united into reunification 40 years apart. This was an astonishing, monumental departure from European norms and hardly a surprise it should be. Germany has become one of the most important economic and a political power in Europe, thanks to the new German power.
3. Changing Power Dynamics
This change was brought by the fall of the Berlin Wall. This hurt the Soviet Union’s power over Eastern Europe, and thus it encouraged the various countries to gain independence and establish democracy. This brought an end to the world as it was known for decades – the Cold War, as it existed – and finally led to the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
Legacy
The fall of the Berlin Wall left a lasting impact on the world:
1. Triumph of Democracy
That democratic values had wrested the authoritarian’s rule proved to have been the case when the Berlin Wall collapsed. And it moved people around the world to rise up in movements for democracy and human rights, in the East and the West, and everywhere.
2. Global Integration
Once reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War had begun, doors were opened to greater global integration. It made economic cooperation and exchange of cultural between East and West and progress in technology, trade and communication.
3. Lessons Learned
It is a reminder to us all that the freedom in individual is a must and the detailing, isolating things are the must harm of all, including the fall of the wall of Berlin. That is to have people working towards understanding, cooperation and peaceful resolutions of conflicts.
Conclusion
It happened: The Berlin Wall fell. It cannot be overstated as to how it affected the Cold War. And great change was sparked by this event, the end of the Cold War, unification of Germany. Apart from being a beacon of hope toward spreading of democracy and free in the rest of the world, it also was.