The Berlin Wall<span>: The </span>Fall<span> of the </span>Wall<span>. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East </span>Berlin's<span> Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.</span>
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An armistice is b) an agreement between warring nations to stop fighting. An armistice has been officially defined as "a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, since it may constitute as a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace."