any : y Since 1990
ents took place that have been much discussed , 9 Peaceful Revolution brought down the SED the two Germanies were united in a new democratic events brought an end to the post-war period in rope , their overall importance in world history is a now for certain whether future historians will treat bal , or perhaps just European importance , whether is , the 1989 / 91 anti-communist revolutions and the Union , the 2001 terrorist attacks against the twin s pandemic . Caesuras help to map , order , clarify , and relate past events , freeze-framed as history , in a , such as those above , provide a framework , which ssue under scrutiny and the methodological approach , ras follow political-historical considerations , but they rical caesurae almost never have an immediate impact ocial structures , processes , and phenomena . Societies don ’ t change in lockstep with these epoch-changing nal cases and cannot even be shown conclusively to 918 , or 1933 . In the case of 1989 / 90 , research has so ra , but it seems obvious that the fall of the Berlin wall union on July 1 , 1990 , when the West German Mark a profound impact on the lives of every single East re so than the fall of the wall — that these two events Most East Germans were not directly involved in the