Berlin WALL

Question 1

What is Checkpoint Charlie?

Answer 1

This was a flashpoint: This was when a US diplomat was refused access to East Berlin. Hence, they were accompanied by soldiers. Soviet tanks were also blocking the checkpoint. The slightest action from either troops could have started a war

Question 2

When was the Beflin Wall created?

Answer 2

August 1961

Question 3

Why was the Berlin Wall created?

Answer 3

• around 3 million people had defected to West Berlin
• to prevent espionage

Question 4

What was the impact of Berlin Wall on Germans?

Answer 4

• Berlin still divide
• families divided
• 12 pensioners try to escape by creating a tunnel

Question 5

Impact of Berlin Wall on USA?

Answer 5

• made West seem a place of freedom
• showed how America did not have full control over the USSR

Question 6

Impact of Berlin Wall on USSR?

Answer 6

• propaganda disaster - force need to contain people in Communism
• people did stop defecting into West Germany
• showed visible division between East and West (links to Iron Curtain)