Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Print Resources
  • Most print resources on Berlin and the Fall of the Berlin Wall will be located in 943.
  • Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog.

eBooks ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library --Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

Search Biography Resource Center for brief and extensive biographies, articles, and web resources about people in American and world life, both past and present.~ Biographies, magazine, and newspaper articles

Search Britannica Online for reference information in literature, science, social science, and history. Britannica Online also carries news stories from The New York Times. ~ Search terms: Berlin Wall, East Berlin, West Berlin, Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Reunification of Germany, Helmut Kohl

Search the Student Research Center for magazines, newspapers, reference articles, and primary documents. Search NoveList for reviews, annotations and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. ~Search term: BERLIN Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989

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Gale Virtual Reference Library ~ Fall of the Berlin Wall eBooks

Search History Resource Center: World for reference information, periodical articles, primary sources, and multimedia items such as maps and images from ancient and modern world history. ~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources. Sample articles:

The Berlin Wall Falls, November 9, 1989
The Berlin Wall is Built, August 13, 1961

Newsbank carries articles from U.S. and international sources covering politics, science, social science, and arts/culture. ~ Newspaper articles from U.S. and international sources

Search Student Resource Center Gold for reference, periodical, and primary source articles as well as maps and images across all subject areas. ~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources

Sample articles:

Die Berliner Mauer Fälle , 9. November 1989
Berliner Mauer wird errichtet , 13. August 1961
Ende des kalten Krieges , 1989-1990
Helmut Kohl (biography)

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Internet Resources

    The Berlin Wall ~ This interactive exhibit presents the perspectives of people living on both sides of the Wall, the bravery and cunning of those who managed to escape, the tragedy of those who lost their lives trying, the final destruction of the Wall in 1989, a timeline of events from 1945 to 1989, and several features dealing with the issue of censorship.

    The Berlin Wall --Ten Years After ~ Time Magazine offers a timeline; five archived articles, including "Across the Great Divivde," a look at Berlin a decade after the Wall; and two photo histories.

    The Fall of the Wall ~ This site sorts by month the many images and entries that chronicle the astonishing history of the period October 1989 to March 1990 and also provides both an encyclopedia of terms and ideas and a collection of related biographies. In German and English.

    Retracing the Berlin Wall ~ Rich in images, this site offers three interactive maps describing tours of areas near the former location of the Berlin Wall (north, central, and south); a text- and image-rich history of the Wall; and three galleries of images. In German and English.

    The Wall: 1958-1963 ~ Episode 9 of the Cold War Experience series from CNN.
    The Wall Comes Down: 1989 ~ Episode 23 of the Cold War Experience series from CNN.


N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center, Park Ridge, IL
Created: 11/20/07 Last update: 5/12/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org