Building Of The Berlin Wall 1961

Question 1

What did East German troops begin doing on the night of August 12th 1961?

Answer 1

Building a wall in Berlin

Question 2

How long was the eventual concrete wall?

Answer 2

43km (27 miles)

Question 3

How did people try to escape East Berlin while the wall was being built?

Answer 3

Jumping the barriers, jumping out of windows, running through checkpoints

Question 4

How did the wall help the USSR but also show them to be the “bad guys”?

Answer 4

It stopped migration to the West but made East Germany like a prison

Question 5

How was the West able to use the Wall as a propaganda victory?

Answer 5

It made East Germany and Communism seem like a prison

Question 6

What was the theme of the speech that President Kennedy gave in front of the wall in the June of 1963?

Answer 6

That freedom was better than communism, that the USA would defend West Berlin and that the Berlin Wall was wrong