World politics explainer: The fall of the Berlin Wall
- Written by Andrew Bonnell, Associate Professor of History, The University of Queensland
Berlin Wall, 1988. The fall of the Berlin Wall signifies the end of the Cold War and the victory of liberal democratic values. Shutterstock
This article is part of our series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it, our authors examine how and why an event unfolded, its impact at the time, and its...
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