Fall of the Berlin Wall: Document Based Questions

This assignment contains five primary source(s), covering the fall of the Berlin Wall.

(1.) 1962 GDR Brochure

(2.) Soviet Government Response to American Protest on Berlin Wall, August 18, 1961

(3.) Recollections of Annette Simon, Former East Berliner

(4.) East Berlin Building Broadside “Freedom is not a gift, let us protect it.”

(5.) Monday Demonstrations, East Berlin Protests, October 8th, 1989.

Each document has 1-4 questions each to help students analyze the sources and understand the time period. (Total Questions 18.)

Finally a short writing questions is presented to students;

Applying information from one text to another, citing when necessary, answer the following question; to what extent was the fall of the Berlin Wall a reflection of the will of Eastern Soviet citizens?

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