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Which European city was divided by a wall from 1961 until its fall in 1989?
Answer
Berlin
The Berlin Wall was constructed by East Germany beginning on August 13, 1961, physically dividing East and West Berlin. It stood until November 9, 1989, when the East German government opened the checkpoints and crowds began tearing it down, symbolising the end of the Cold War division of Europe.
💡 Did you know?
On the night the Berlin Wall fell, a David Hasselhoff concert drew nearly a million people to the Brandenburg Gate — his song 'Looking for Freedom' had become an unlikely anthem of German reunification.
Other options people guess
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Prague
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- cold-war
- 1980s
- europe
- germany
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