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Line 1: − [[Image:Berlin Wall patrol.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Wall viewed from the West, showing the so-called "death strip" on the Eastern side. Anybody setting foot here could be shot on sight by the Border Guards, a patrol of whom can be seen just over the Wall.]]
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The '''Berlin Wall''' was a heavily guarded police wall in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] that separated [[Communist]] East Berlin from [[democracy|democratic]] West Berlin. It was one of the most visible symbols of the [[Iron Curtain]]. The wall was built in 1961 by the government of the [[German Democratic Republic]] (East Germany) in order to stop the tide of emigration to West Berlin. President [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1987 demanded it be torn down, to the astonishment of the world. To even greater disbelief, it was torn down in November, 1989, thus ending the [[Cold War]] and bringing freedom to East Germany and (within days) to the rest of the satellites in East Europe which now threw off Communism.
The '''Berlin Wall''' was a heavily guarded police wall in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] that separated [[Communist]] East Berlin from [[democracy|democratic]] West Berlin. It was one of the most visible symbols of the [[Iron Curtain]]. The wall was built in 1961 by the government of the [[German Democratic Republic]] (East Germany) in order to stop the tide of emigration to West Berlin. President [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1987 demanded it be torn down, to the astonishment of the world. To even greater disbelief, it was torn down in November, 1989, thus ending the [[Cold War]] and bringing freedom to East Germany and (within days) to the rest of the satellites in East Europe which now threw off Communism.