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What saved West Berlin from starving?
Berlin Airlift
When did the Berlin Wall fall?
November 9, 1989
What is the official name of East Germany?
German Democratic Republic
Which four countries split Germany after WWII?
France, USA, USSR, and UK
What was the official name of West Germany?
Federal Republic of Germany
Around how many people died trying to cross the wall?
More than 100
What was the wall originally comprised of?
Fencing and Barbed Wire
What is the mass migration of intellectual people called?
Brain Drain
What was the official name of the Berlin Wall?
Ant-Fascist Protection Rampart
In front of what symbol of division did Ronald Reagan speak in front of in Berlin?
Brandenburg Gate
In JFK's speech, what did he say to people that thought Communism was the future?
Let them come to Berlin.
What was the name of the spokesman that informed East Berliners that they can enter West Berlin again?
Gunter Schabowski
Who made reforms to the Soviet Union and their puppets in the year, 1989?
Mikhail Gorbachev
About how many Germans crossed into West Germany before the wall was built?
2.7 million people
Before the Berlin Wall fell, how did Germans get to the west?
Through Neighboring Countries in the Eastern Block
The Warsaw Pact ultimately failed after what? Double Jeopardy!!
After its member-states declared independence from Gorbachev's 1989 reforms.
Name 5 effects of the Berlin Wall.
Families separated, Jobs in both sides of Berlin were shut off from citizens of either side, West Berlin became isolated deep inside the East Germany, Commerce from either side was frozen, Berlin became the hardest place to defect to the West from, West was furious.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had how many founding members?
12
What were the causes and effects of the Berlin Blockade?
Western plans for a West Germany, and financial reforms; the collapse of the post-war alliance between the four nations.
The Berlin wall surrounded in total what place?
West Berlin.
The Berlin Wall featured many defenses, three of them are:
Any of these three: Walls, landmines, armed guards, attack dogs, guard towers, no-man's land, searchlights.
Name all members of the Warsaw Pact, including members who would eventually leave.
East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the Soviet Union.
Two presidents visited Berlin and the Berlin Wall. What were their names and most famous catchphrases from their speeches?
JFK - "Ich bin ein Berliner"
Reagan - "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization accepted a 15th member in what year?
1955
Name all the NATO members including the three members that joined later.
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Iceland, France, the UK, Norway, Portugal, the United States, Greece, Turkey, and West Germany