HNN Hot Topics: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Commentary

• Michael Meyer: The unanswered phone calls and misunderstood memos that helped bring down the Berlin Wall
  

• Peter Beinart: The Myth of the Wall's Fall
  

• Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: Who Caused the End of the Cold War?
  

• Joshua Stanton: Berlin at 20 ... Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable
  

• Mitchell Koss: Hungary was the first rip in Iron Curtain
  

• Fouad Ajami: Walls ... From Berlin to Baghdad
  

• James McGrath and Arthur Milnes: As the wall fell, Mulroney and Bush manoeuvred
  

• Rudy Giuliani: Ronald Reagan's unyielding style won the Cold War
  

• Anthony R. Dolan: The Power of Reagan's Four Little Words
  

• WSJ Editorial: From Truman to Reagan, the benefits of moral clarity
  

• Timothy Garton Ash: 1989 changed the world. But where now for Europe?
  

• James A. Baker III: Why the Wall Fell
  

• Peter Beaumont: Mikhail Gorbachev – the forgotten hero of history
  

• MRC Editorial Report: Whitewashing the Communist Record on Human Rights
  

• Roger Cohen: The Hinge of History
  

• Niall Ferguson: 1979 Trumps 1989 in Significance
  

• Kenneth Weisbrode: The False Promise of 1989
  

• Joshua Keating: Today's Berlin Walls
  

News

• The Legacy of 1989 Is Still Up for Debate
  

• East Germans may have arrived in West Berlin hours before previously thought
  

• Sarkozy posts Berlin Wall photo
  

• Berlin Wall anniversary: leaders recreate historic walk
  

• Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary
  

• Germany Celebrates Fall of the Berlin Wall
  

• Deer Still Shun Iron Curtain Border
  

• With Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade
  

• Amid Berlin Wall Commemorations, Activists Rally for Liberation of North Korea
  

• As Wall Crumbled, Berliners Rebuilt Their Lives
  

• Massive foam dominoes to be toppled in tribute to Berlin Wall's fall
  

• France to Mark Fall of Berlin Wall With Musical Tribute
  

• 20 years later, major effort to repair, restore Berlin Wall
  

• Moscow could have started WW3 over Berlin Wall: Gorbachev
  

• Fall of Berlin Wall Marks End of Cold War
  

• History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall