Impact Of The Berlin Wall

Question 1

What did people try to do whilst Berlin wall was being built?

Answer 1

Try to escape

Question 2

How did one woman try to escape the Berlin Wall?

Answer 2

Threw a mattress out the window into West Berlin and jumped on it. She later died of her injuries

Question 3

What did the West Berlin Fire Service try to do?

Answer 3

Help others by catching them in blankets

Question 4

When was the wall finished?

Answer 4

By the end of summed

Question 5

Describe the finished Berlin Wall?

Answer 5

27 miles long through centre of Berlin
Strictly speaking two walls, one facing east and one west
Separated walls by no-mans land
No-mans land: booby-traps, barbed wire, guarded by hundreds of lookout towers

Question 6

Who was separated by the wall?

Answer 6

Families, often for years on end

Question 7

What did some people desperately try to do?

Answer 7

Cross the wall

Question 8

What were East German border guards instructed to do if someone tried to cross the wall?

Answer 8

To shoot, estimated over 130 people killed

Question 9

What was one of the saddest failed attempts to cross the Berlin Wall?

Answer 9

August 1962, two building workers made a dash for it. One reached West Berlin and other, Peter Fetcher, was shot. He lay dying for 45 minutes and thousands od West Germans yelled ‘murderers’ across the border before East Germans took the body away

Question 10

What were negative impacts of the Berlin Wall for the Soviet Union?

Answer 10

. Khrushchev had to abandon plans to unite Germany under Soviet control
. Wall showed Soviet Union had to ‘lock’ people into East Germany to stop them leaving. Showed people preferred capitalism

Question 11

What were negative outcomes of the Berlin Wall for USA?

Answer 11

. Soviet Union had closed border without consulting USA
. Those who wanted to escape communism no longer could

Question 12

What were positive outcomes of the Berlin Wall for Soviet Union?

Answer 12

. Wall stopped refugees leaving for West through East Berlin
. Wall sent a message to West that communism would survive in Berlin, and any attempt to reunite Germany under West control would fail

Question 13

What were positive outcomes of Berlin Wall for USA?

Answer 13

. Wall showed Khrushchev had been forced to accept Western control in West Berlin and that he could no longer bully Kennedy
. West Berlin became an emblem of freedom and defiance against communism

Question 14

How were the positive results for Kennedy’s reputation from the Berlin Wall demonstrated?

Answer 14

When he visited West Berlin in 1963, thousands of West Berliners turned out to see him. He was treated like a sporting hero, his route was showered with flowers

Question 15

What is the contrast between life after Berlin wall between East and West Berlin?

Answer 15

West Berliners wre celebrating freedom in contrast to the restrictions of life in the East as well as the arrival of a famous visitor

Question 16

What did Kennedy do on his visit to West Berlin?

Answer 16

Praised the freedoms of the West and contrasted them with communism in the famous speech where he said, ‘Ich bin Ein berliner’

Question 17

What does ‘Ich bin ein berliner’ mean?

Answer 17

‘I am a citizen of Berlin’

Question 18

What did the building of the wall mostly do to tension?

Answer 18

Increased it

Question 19

What were the negative outcomes of the Berlin Wall on international relations?

Answer 19

. Despite meetings and summits and even a concrete wall, still no progress. Reminded people of Churchill’s 1946 ‘Iron curtain’ speech
. Berlin Wall became a symbol of the differences between East and Wesy for almost 30 years before it was taken down in 1989

Question 20

What were positive outcomes of Berlin Wall on international relations?

Answer 20

. Now there was a wall, there was less chance the US and Soviet Union would go to war over Berlin. Kennedy said a wall was better than war
. In some ways, the building of the wall may have reduced tensions

Question 21

When were any improved relations from Berlin Wall destroyed?

Answer 21

Events in Cuba in 1962