Fall Of The Wall
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- Fall Of The Wall
- In January 1989 Honecker claimed 'The Berlin wall will stand for another 100 years'
- In the late 80s Hungary started to reform and allow multi party elections.
- On the 2nd May 1989 Hungary opened it boarders with Austria.
- By the summer more than 30,000 citizens of GDR had used the Hungary-Austria boarder to go to the FRG
- On 3rd October the GDR closed its boarders with Czechoslovakia
- On the 2nd May 1989 Hungary opened it boarders with Austria.
- When Gorbachev came to power he constantly undermined Honecker's hard line socialism
- The GDR had to either condemn the actions of China at Tiananmen Square or applaud it. Honecker chose to applaud it.
- New parties like the SPD and Democratic Reawakening
- Honecker began to retreat from public life due to health issues
- On 6th October 1989 Gorbachev visited the GDR
- he told Honecker that he must start to follow Russian liberalisation.
- There were protests with people chanting 'Gorby help us'
- 9th October 1989 was the Leizig Demonstration
- There were over 70,000 demonstrators
- On the 17th October 1989 Honecker resigned
- Krenz succeeded Honecker without much support from the Politburo
- On 9th November 1989 Krenz announced unrestricted access between the GDR and the FRG
- Because this was announced so suddenly people began to pick away at the wall and it collapsed.
- On 9th November 1989 Krenz announced unrestricted access between the GDR and the FRG
- Krenz succeeded Honecker without much support from the Politburo
- Once the wall had fallen Kohl reunified Germany and became the first Chancellor of the reunified Germany.
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