With the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of Nirvana, nuclear anxiety gave way to more unchanneled angst accompanied by fewer synthesizers.
With several books already under his belt, Mr Beevor became known in 1998 for his epic account of the siege of Stalingrad, and went on to produce accounts of D-Day and the fall of Berlin.
It is as if the speed and magnitude of the changes to East Germans' lives after the fall of the Berlin Wall left some East Berliners longing for the certainties of the old days.
But it shed its Marxist-Leninist ideology at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, replacing it with messages of solidarity and human dignity.
Americans saw it differently, as the most inspiring event in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolt of the Baltic states.
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Arguably the biggest international stories came at the decade's end - the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the collapse of Communism in Europe.
On January 15, 2007, El Salvador hosted the XIII Encounter of the Forum of Sao Paolo (FSP), an organization that was created by Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva in 1990 to regroup the leftist forces in the region after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent failure of Communism.
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Her first topic that day was about the rise of Gorbachev and the ultimate fall of the Berlin Wall.
The most thought-provoking came from a woman in Germany who, after reading the New York Times, wondered if, only two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was actually witnessing the implosion of the system that brought it down.
Yet, historians 400 years into the future would remember this past quarter century, Summers said, not for the global financial crisis or even the fall of the Berlin Wall, but the way that a third of humanity was lifted out of poverty and had their standards of living improved multifold.
The 21st anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is an occasion to renew our common commitment to advance the cause of world freedom in the 21st century.
General Assembly established the IPCC in the months immediately preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And these will be modeled on funds that supported the transitions in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
South Korea and the U.S. should consider an unconventional maneuver--the one that precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall--to undermine North Korea's regime.
The massive warehouse in the Mitte district was occupied by artists after the fall of the Berlin Wall and became a major tourist attraction.
While the world should be cheering the Honduran election as we did the fall of the Berlin wall, international opinion continues to turn against them.
Even revolutionary actions that look spontaneous, like the demonstrations in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, are, at core, strong-tie phenomena.
The committee added that the fall of the Berlin Wall had made EU membership possible for several Central and Eastern European countries, thereby opening a new era in European history.
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Arab fanaticism now plays the same role for conservatives that Communism played until the fall of the Berlin Wall: it justifies both a vigorous foreign policy abroad and an ever-vigilant approach to potential subversives at home.
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Mrs Merkel said she would hold "swift and decisive" talks with FDP leader Guido Westerwelle, emphasising that a new coalition would be in place at the latest by 9 November, when Germany marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The process of rooting out imperial administrations in the political sphere has been under way for centuries, as far back as Magna Carta in England in 1215, the Revolution in France in 1789, and on to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Obama used the life of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate what the nation has overcome in her lifetime, including the Depression, world wars, the nation's quest for civil rights, a man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even a world connected by technology.
The steady reduction of barriers since WWII, and especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall, has led to an unprecedented expansion of global prosperity.
Next month sees the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet those countries are still waiting for membership.
But the symbolic highlight of 1989 was the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Italy's difficulties are not unlike those faced by the countries of Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For almost 50 years--from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, until the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989--the U.S. was beset by mortal enemies.
Just as their parents were captivated by scenes of the fall of the Berlin Wall on cable television, so now do young people watch the videos of the Arab uprisings on YouTube.
Kohl exhibited similar determination by quickly reunifying his country after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall we don't obviously hear the same kind of rhetoric.
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