Berlin Wall

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/15/1961	Walter Ulbricht Lies	Communist East German leader Walter Ulbricht lies to the East German populations stating, “No one intends to build a wall”. The East Germans know he’s lying and many leave.
08/13/1961	Construction of Berlin Wall	At twelve o’clock at night, German soldiers from the East began building the infamous Berlin Wall. Ulbricht declared the wall an "anti-fascist protection barrier".
08/15/1961	Hopping to the West	East German soldier Conrad Schumann is photographed hopping a barbed wire to get to the West.
08/19/1961	Climbing over to Die	A man died as he tried to climb down over the Berlin Wall to get to West Berlin.
08/24/1961	First Recorded Death	24 year old Guenter Litfin is shot and killed while he was swimming across the Spree River. First documented killing by a Berlin Wall guard.
08/17/1962	Bled to Death	Peter Fechter bleeds to death in No Man's land after being shot trying to flee East Germany.
06/23/1963	Ich Bin Ein Berliner	John Kennedy rides declared," Ich bin ein Berliner " (I am a Berliner) while riding through West Berlin in a limo.
03/11/1985	Change from the Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union and changes many things
06/12/1987	U.S demands Tearing of Wall	Near Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan demands: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall."
01/01/1989	Wall won't fall	Popular protests against East German government become bolder and more widespread, but leader Erich Honecker insists: "The Wall will stand in 50, even 100 years."
09/10/1989	Iron Curtain	Hungary breaks ranks with Warsaw Pact and officially opens border with Austria to East Germans, creating first chink in Iron Curtain. Thousands of East German "tourists" go West.
10/07/1989	40th anniversary	40th year that East Germany has been in existence.
10/18/1989	Honecker resigns	Honecker forced to resign "on health grounds" amid growing protests.
11/04/1989	Protest for Democracy	In East Berlin, half a million protest for democracy in East Berlin.
11/09/1989	The West Rush	Egon Krenz, who took over after Honecker, announces that East Germans can go West Mix-up over announcement means that, within minutes, East Berliners overwhelm the guard posts on the Berlin Wall. By midnight, over a million East Berliners rush to the West.