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The 29 pages that link to Fall of the Berlin Wall, each with the reason it gives.

• Cold WarBroader topic: The wall’s opening became a defining sign that Soviet control in Eastern Europe was collapsing.

• German reunificationRelated: The border opening made division’s end immediate and strengthened demands for unity.

• Velvet RevolutionRelated: It showed that Communist rule elsewhere in the region could end rapidly and without Soviet intervention.

• Berlin WallBroader topic: This event ended the Wall’s role as a closed border.

• Revolutions of 1989Broader topic: A confused announcement and crowds at checkpoints converted political pressure into an irreversible public breach.

• EurocommunismRelated: The collapse of Soviet-bloc communism transformed the political setting in which Eurocommunist parties operated.

• Eastern BlocRelated: It became the most visible symbol of the bloc’s rapid collapse.

• Enlargement of the European UnionRelated: The end of Cold War divisions made eastern enlargement politically possible.

• CNNBroader topic: CNN’s international reporting brought the rapidly changing events to a broad television audience.

• Peaceful RevolutionBroader topic: The border opening was the movement’s most dramatic immediate breakthrough.

• 1990 FIFA World CupRelated: The wall's fall preceded the tournament and marked the political changes surrounding Germany's impending reunification.

• BastilleCompared with: Both events turned the destruction of a political barrier into a symbol of regime change.

• End of the Cold WarBroader topic: Its opening became the clearest public symbol of the collapse of Europe’s Cold War division.

• Inner German borderCompared with: The Wall drew global attention, while the much longer inter-German frontier was a distinct barrier.

• Two Plus Four AgreementRelated: The opening made German reunification an immediate political question.

• West BerlinRelated: It removed the physical division that had constrained West Berlin for nearly three decades.

• SovietizationRelated: It marked the collapse of a central symbol of Soviet-backed rule in Eastern Europe.

• European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentRelated: The upheaval helped create the political opening for a bank devoted to economic transition.

• Peter JenningsRelated: Jennings reported from Berlin as the wall opened, one of his defining live-news assignments.

• Contemporary historyBroader topic: It became a vivid marker of the Cold War’s end in Europe.

• East BerlinRelated: It ended the barrier that had separated East Berlin from the West.

• 1990sRelated: It set the political transition in motion just before the decade began.

• Erich MielkeRelated: The opening of the border accelerated the political collapse that ended Mielke’s power.

• 1980sBroader topic: Its opening became the decade’s most visible symbol of the Cold War’s approaching end.

• Berlin U-BahnRelated: Reopening the border made restoration of interrupted U-Bahn connections possible.

• Brandenburg GateRelated: Crowds gathered at the gate as the barrier dividing the city opened.

• David HasselhoffRelated: Hasselhoff's later performance near the wall became linked in public memory with its opening.

• Short twentieth centuryRelated: It signaled the unraveling of the European order that preceded the Soviet Union’s dissolution.

• Contemporary eraRelated: Its aftermath marks a later proposed beginning of the contemporary era.