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Humanities: Cold War ends

Multi media links

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – The Revolutions of 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2XGHA7NK4 

TIME – Why the Berlin Wall fell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWN7JlGE6PE 

RTTV – Perestroika: From Rebuilding to Collapse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBOZOPS3G4w 

CNN – Mikhail Gorbachev on the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWHqBneBLY

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Biography (Biography.com)

Mikhail Gorbachev (Spartacus Educational)

Mikhail Gorbachev (Cold War Museum)

1988 Gorbachev ends the Cold War (Austria and the end of the Cold War)

Mikhail Gorbachev quotations

Fall of the Berlin Wall

How the Berlin Wall worked (How stuff works) Background to how the end came for the Berlin Wall

1989: Berliners celebrate the fall of the wall (BBC on this Day)

1989: The night the wall came down (BBC on this Day)

The Fall of the Berlin Wall Pictures (CBS News)

Gorbachev vs Reagan

Reagan Gorbachev era ( Nuclear files.org)

Who ended the Cold War? (The Boston Globe)

"Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall"

Historiography