- Fall of the Berlin Wall. This event was of enormous importance in the fall of the Soviet Union. It was a sudden and entirely unexpected event that showed the world how badly Germany wanted reunification and how quickly that could be achieved. The wall fell on November 9th, 1989; the country was officially reunified on October 3rd, 1990, less than a year later.
- The Solidarity movement. The Solidarity movement started in Gdansk, Poland, in 1980. Led by Lech Walesa, the Solidarity trade union would eventually have more than 1/3rd of the country’s workers as members. The Solidarity members ...
