No Class: October 9

It has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1989 was a year of dramatic changes. Apartheid began to crumble in South Africa. The Chinese had protests that peaked with a confrontation in Tiananmen Square. Hungary made a “hole” in the Iron Curtain. East Germany opened the Berlin Wall. Communist governments collapsed in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, and the year ended with a bloody coup in Romania. How did this all happen in what seemed so little time? This program will look at the factors that led to this “domino effect.”