--- description: The Berlin Wall has been a thing of the past for 25 years. This is its history title: What Was the Berlin Wall? A Timeline of its History image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [History](/section/history/) ## History Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [conflict](/tag/conflict/) ## conflict Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Interactive Timeline: The Berlin Wall, Beginning to End by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 12:00 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 6, 2014 12:00 PM CUT As the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, take a look back at how it came to be, how it changed the world and how it came down. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3559122/berlin-wall-timeline/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3559122/berlin-wall-timeline/"},"headline":"Interactive Timeline: The Berlin Wall, Beginning to End","datePublished":"2014-11-06T12:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:15:06.463Z","description":"The concrete that split the city began to come down 25 years ago this week","url":"https://time.com/3559122/berlin-wall-timeline/","keywords":["conflict","Germany","Berlin","Cold War","Berlin Wall"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/conflict/","name":"conflict"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3559122/berlin-wall-timeline/","name":"Interactive Timeline: The Berlin Wall, Beginning to End"}}]}] ```