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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

What force guarded the Berlin Wall for East Germany?

Answer

Grenztruppen of the GDR

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Who was West Berlin’s mayor when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961?

Answer

Willy Brandt

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

How long did the Berlin Wall stand, from its construction to its opening?

Answer

28 years, 2 months, 27 days

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

What was the name of the West Berlin radio station that broadcast news and music across the divided city from 1946?

Answer

RIAS

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Which major Berlin railway station was divided by the Berlin Wall and became a crossing point between East and West?

Answer

Friedrichstraße station

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Which Soviet leader’s reforms helped create the political climate in which the Berlin Wall fell in 1989?

Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Which 1989 political slogan, meaning “We are the people,” became associated with East German protests against one-party rule?

Answer

Wir sind das Volk

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

What was the German name for the mass protests that helped pressure East Germany’s government in autumn 1989?

Answer

Montagsdemonstrationen

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

On what date did U.S. President Ronald Reagan deliver his “Tear down this wall!” speech in West Berlin?

Answer

12 June 1987

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Which country’s opening of its border with Austria helped trigger the 1989 East German exodus that preceded the Berlin Wall’s fall?

Answer

Hungary

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

Which Berlin church was demolished by East German authorities in 1985 because it stood in the Wall’s border strip?

Answer

Church of Reconciliation

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Berlin Wall

How many people had left East Germany for the West between 1949 and the Berlin Wall’s construction in 1961?

Answer

About 2.7 million

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