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.
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.
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.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Visions of Division 1945 1989
Photographic account of the Cold War in Germany, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the wall in 1989.
Library of Congress
Loc: Country Study: Germany, East (Former)
U.S. Government report on the history, society, economy and government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from its establishment in 1949 until 1987, or two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and four years before...
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.
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...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Nato's 60th Anniversary
NATO has put together a tremendous amount of information about the 60 years it has been in existence. The resource includes photos, videos, tv lectures about NATO, a timeline of events in each decade from 1949 to 2009, and copies of its...
BBC
Bbc News: Soviet Union Timeline
A timeline covering the history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The End of the Cold War
Read about the surprising and swift collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries beginning with Poland in 1989. Watch a map which shows the change from a single country, USSR, into many independent countries, and find out...
Digital History
Digital History: Collapse of Communism
Overview of the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev and his reforms.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Cold War Events (1968 1991)
Contains interesting facts and key dates of the major Cold War events from 1968 - 1991.