Vocabulary
The Cold War was a rivalry between these two countries.
What are the Soviet Union and United States?
Germany was divided into this many sections after World War II
What are 4?
The wall was built by this group
What is the East?
This is the country he was born in
What is Poland?
This country was divided after World War II
What is Germany?
This was the idea the West wanted contained.
What is communism?
What are 3?
This many nations controlled East Berlin
What is 1?
John Paul II was named this in 1978
What is pope?
Great Britain, France, and the United States controlled this region of Germany post-WWII.
What is West Germany?
The West believed in this economic system
What is capitalism?
Communism was the economic system that was present in this part of Germany
What is East Germany?
What is 1961?
This happened in 1981 to John Paul II
What is he was almost killed by an assassination attempt?
The domino theory concerned which side of the world
What is the West?
The Iron Curtain was a phrase coined after this war
What is World War II?
The city of Berlin was located within this part of Germany
What is East Germany?
The year the Berlin Wall was torn down
What is 1989?
This happened in Poland in 1989 to government officials
What is government officials were elected who were not communist?
The Berlin Wall was about this tall
What is 15 feet high?
The Iron Curtain separated Communist controlled nations from this
What are Western nations?
This was the official name of West Germany OR East Germany
What is West Germany= Federal Republic of Germany OR East Germany = German Democratic Republic ?
The month the Berlin Wall was taken down
What is November?
The Soviet Union ended in this year
What is 1991?
Initially the wall stretched this many miles
What is 28 miles?