Question 22 • 11011de2 CONNECTED Fall 2026 NM-US History and Geography S2
Hungary’s government reforms helped open routes west for East Germans, weakening the barriers that kept them in the East. Protests around the German Democratic Republic’s anniversary added pressure for change, while Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech became a prominent call for the wall’s removal. Boris Yeltsin’s election and German reunification came later or were not causes of the wall’s fall.
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