The country that was divided after WWII into two parts, controlled by four different countries.
What is Germany?
100
Berlin was divided into what two parts after WWII?
What is West Berlin and East Berlin?
100
This was built in the middle of the night, unknown to citizens of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
The president who told Gorbechev to "tear down this wall!"
Who is Ronald Reagan?
100
The man who was the US President when the wall came down.
Who is George Bush (senior)?
200
The eastern division that was controlled by communist Soviet Union.
What is East Germany?
200
The Soviet-controlled communist part of Berlin.
What is East Berlin?
200
To prevent people from being able to cross, the East German government did this.
What is build the fence higher and stronger; threatened people with being shot if they crossed.
200
The amount of time an East Berliner would have to wait for a new car.
What is 7 years?
200
The leader of the Soviet Union when the wall came down.
Who is Mikhail Gorbechev?
300
The 3 countries that controlled West Germany.
What is France, Great Britain and the USA?
300
West Berlin was controlled by countries that believed in what type of government?
What is democracy?
300
The reason people did not want to live in East Berlin.
What is East Berlin was a communist state and they would have very little freedom.
300
The length of the Berlin Wall (in miles).
What is 96 miles?
300
German Chancellor at the time of the wall coming down.
Who is Helmut Kohl?
400
The communist "group" of countries that later broke up into democratic states.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
A series of fences that divided the city of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
The communist government did not want to lose its citizens because the government structure depended upon its citizens working for it.
What is the reason the wall was built?
400
The name of the street where apartment buildings' front doors opened to West Berlin, but the people who lived inside the apartments were considered East Berliners.
What is Bernauer Strase?
400
The American news correspondent that reported the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Tom Brokaw?
500
The capital of Germany that was divided into 2 parts.
What is Berlin?
500
People were shot if caught doing this in Berlin.
What is crossing the fence?
500
The man from the video whose wife and two sons were in East Berlin while he was in West Berlin as the fence was built. He described what happened between himself and the East German guard.
Who is Rudolf Muller?
500
The strip of sand and tripwires that sat between the cement border marker and the barbed wire fence.
What is the "Death Strip"?
500
The first name of the woman whose father made her and her family quickly choose a few belongings and then jump out of the window to escape East Berlin, shortly after the first fence was secretly built.