The Fall of the Wall: a Turning Point
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a turning point in history for the whole world. On that November night in 1989, Germany started growing together again. On that night, it was proven that unjust borders could not prevail when a dissatisfied population wanted to leave. The fall of the Berlin Wall was a turning point in history because it showed the world that repressive regimes could not exist when the people built up the courage to bring down an unjust regime.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a turning point in history for the whole world. On that November night in 1989, Germany started growing together again. On that night, it was proven that unjust borders could not prevail when a dissatisfied population wanted to leave. The fall of the Berlin Wall was a turning point in history because it showed the world that repressive regimes could not exist when the people built up the courage to bring down an unjust regime.
The fall of the Berlin Wall led to Germany’s reunification on October 3rd, 1990 after almost a whole year of negotiations between the two Germanys and the four nations that had won World War II (France, the U.K., the US and the Soviet Union). It took enormous economic investments in the former East before the united Germany became a strong economic power again.
The reunification of Germany symbolized the “end of the end” of the Cold War. The “Iron Curtain” which the Soviet Union had draped over Eastern Europe was torn and could never be mended again. The Soviet Union itself fell apart.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was also a turning point because the Western powers, the US, Great Britain, and France, which had kept troops stationed in Germany since the end of World War II, no longer needed to keep so many of them stationed there. The Soviet Union was weakened and eventually dissolved so that it posed less of a threat to the West. The United States itself could now focus more of its foreign policy on other areas of the world such as Asia or the Middle East.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent reunification of Germany paved the way to a bigger and stronger European Union. Many of the Eastern European countries joined the EU and it became more economically and politically integrated and it even shares a common currency now.
In conclusion, I would say that the fall of the Berlin wall was a turning point not only for the city of Berlin and the country of Germany but that it was a turning point for all of Europe, the United States and other parts of the world.