George Mason University
Chnm: Making the History of 1989
Excellent online resource that through the use of primary sources and scholar interviews, focuses on the historical events of 1989 that deal with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Great teacher resource with lesson plans...
The History Place
The History Place: Ronald Reagan: "Tear Down This Wall"
Primary source text, graphics, photos and audio-clips of President Reagan's historic speech given on June 12, 1987, in West Berlin calling for an end to the Cold War and the Berlin Wall.
PBS
Pbs: People Power
A personal interview from someone who was actually there at the historic event can tell so much more than a history book. Read an interview with a citizen of East Germany at the time of the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
Other
Chronik Der Wende: The Fall of the Wall
This resource follows the events pertaining to The Fall of the Berlin Wall between October 1989 until March of 1990. Just click on any day and you can read what happened that day and see pictures.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wilson Center: Berlin Wall
Learn more about the history of the Berlin Wall through this collection of documents. The documents begin with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany before it was built all the way to the wall being torn down in 1989.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Wall
Pictorial essay combines photos and video to tell the story of the fall of the wall in Berlin in 1989.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Wall: Revelation Not Revolution
Photographic and video discussion attempts to answer the question "Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall in November 1989?"
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Photographer Steve Eason from Getty Images Archive presents a pictorial essay of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Revolution in Berlin
Revolution in Berlin is the story of the 40 days leading up to the fall of the wall told in a stunning timeline that includes an array of photographs and primary source documents.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Herbst 1989 Als Die Mauer Fiel
Explore this photographic online exhibit detailing the story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Other
Chris De Wiff: Berlin Wall Page
Chris De Wiff's Berlin Wall Web page guides students through a virtual tour of Berlin's history. See photos of Berlin's past and present. It includes essays and extended links for further research about Berlin's divided past.
Other
Twinity: The Berlin Wall
Re-visit the 20th anniversary of the downfall of communism in Eastern Germany with this virtual walk back in time of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Discover how and why the wall was erected and the way in which it came down. Then learn how...
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: Opening of the Berlin Wall and Unification
Review the events of 1989 through 1990 that involved both East and West Germany to tear down the Berlin Wall and become unified as one nation.
Other
The Lost Border
Offers color photographs and images of the division between West and East Germany. Most images are of the Berlin Wall and military installations affecting social conditions.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: La Caida Del Muro De Berlin
In Spanish. Use this site to learn about the two sides to the Berlin Wall story.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Fall of the Berlin Wall
Interesting facts and background information on the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and why the fall of the Berlin Wall was so important.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: The Fall of Berlin Wall
learn about the Berlin Wall, when and why it was built, when it was demolished, and other interesting facts.