the Fall of the Berlin Wall - 20 Years Later

President Reagan gives a speech in which he said ’Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall’ at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Two years later the wall came down.East German border guards look through a gap in the Berlin Wall after demonstrators pulled down the segment at Brandenburg Gate on November 11, 1989On November 11 1989 thousands of Berliners, from east and west , celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall 24 hours earlier.