Building the wall
Who the GDR was a satellite state for.
What is the USSR?
Unintended side effect of the Berlin Wall.
Order given to GDR soldiers to prevent escape.
What is the order to shoot?
What date did the Berlin Wall fall (including year)?
What is 9. Nov. 1989
Where pieces of the Berlin Wall were sold?
What is all over the world?
Date the Berlin Wall went up.
What is 13. Aug. 1961?
Things installed approximately 250 meters apart to give soldiers greater vantage.
What are watchtowers?
In addition to the Berlin Wall itself, these were stationed along the border.
What are armed soldier?
Crossing point where the Berlin Wall opened after a crowd overwhelmed the gaurds.
What is Dolholmer Strasse?
What the East Berlin magistrate declared the first sections of the Wall, including the section on Bernauer Strasse.
What is a historical monument?
Year the GDR first closed its border to the FRG.
What is 1952?
Track installed so watch dogs could block the path and alert border soldiers of an approaching intruder.
What are dog runners?
The month + year the order to shoot was lifted in.
What is April 1989.
GDR party that had to make concessions, like allowing more open travel.
What is the SED?
People who broke off chunks of the wall as souvenirs.
What are "wall peckers"?
The problem the GDR hoped to solve with the wall.
What is mass exodus?
The year the continual expansion of the Berlin Wall ended.
What is 1975?
The year the "GDR border law" was passed.
Country(ies) GDR citizens fled to to escape the GDR.
What is Hungary/czechoslovakia?
The official day of German Unity Day.
What is 3. Okt.?
What the Berlin Wall started as. (ie material)
What is a barbed wire fence.
Something the GDR were hoping to get by tearing down the wall and making it less menacing.
What is international recognition?
Total number of deaths from the GDR shooting people at the border. (Not the total number of deaths at the wall)
What is 91?
Policy in USSR that aided in the relaxing of the GDR.
What is the Reform Policy?
Place where systematic demolition of the wall began.
What is Ackerstrasse.