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1980s

By lmar5450

  • Ronald Reagan visits Berlin Wall

  • West Berlin BVG takes over the running of the S-bahn commuter rail lines

    it had been under control of the communist Deutsch Reichsbahn

  • A bomb explosion kills three people

    two are US soldiers, in a Berlin disco

  • Ronald Reagan wants to take the Berlin Wall down

    He made a speech on his second visit to the wall demanding that is come down

  • East German government under increasing pressure to reform

  • GDR refugees cross the Hungarian-Austrian border at Soporn

  • Period: to

    GDR government & SED Politburo members resign

  • East German spokesman announces that citizens of the German Democratic Republic will now be permitted to travel

  • Artists gather to create east side gallery

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