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A) 1945 B) 1961 C) 1979 D) 1989
A) 1995 B) 2001 C) 1975 D) 1989
A) East Germany B) West Germany C) United States D) Russia
A) 1995 B) 1985 C) 1990 D) 2000
A) John F. Kennedy B) George H.W. Bush C) Bill Clinton D) Ronald Reagan
A) December 25 B) August 13 C) October 3 D) November 9
A) The Iron Curtain B) The Great Divide C) The Steel Barrier D) The Concrete Divide
A) West Berlin B) East Berlin C) South Berlin D) North Berlin
A) Checkpoint Alpha B) Checkpoint Delta C) Checkpoint Charlie D) Checkpoint Bravo
A) The Iron Curtain. B) The Concrete Barrier. C) The Great Divide. D) The Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart (Antifaschistischer Schutzwall).
A) The Iron Curtain. B) The 'Wall of Shame'. C) The Great Divide. D) The Concrete Barrier.
A) An autocratic regime. B) A centrally planned socialist economy. C) A social market economy with a democratic parliamentary government. D) A communist state under Soviet control.
A) "Sozialismus" (socialism). B) "Wirtschaftswunder". C) "Wiederaufbau" (reconstruction). D) "Kapitalismus" (capitalism).
A) "Blockade." B) "Wirtschaftswunder." C) "Unification." D) "Republikflucht."
A) 187,000 B) 182,000 C) 331,000 D) 165,000
A) Joseph Stalin B) Mikhail Pervukhin C) Walter Ulbricht D) Vyacheslav Molotov
A) 30 September 1954 B) 1 May 1953 C) 15 June 1951 D) 1 April 1952
A) Remove all border defenses B) Open borders for free movement C) Negotiate with Western powers D) Build up their border defenses and consider the demarcation line a dangerous border
A) Concrete walls B) Electric fences C) No barriers were erected D) A barbed-wire fence
A) 1953 B) 1956 C) 1955 D) 1961
A) 15 June 1956 B) 1 January 1958 C) 23 September 1959 D) 11 December 1957
A) 50% B) Well over 90% C) 60% D) 75%
A) 1955 B) 1960 C) 1949 D) 1951
A) Yuri Andropov B) Nikita Khrushchev C) Konrad Adenauer D) Walter Ulbricht
A) Family reunification. B) Political reasons. C) Better climate. D) Economic reasons.
A) 50% B) 75% C) 70.5% D) 61%
A) $15 billion to $17 billion B) $10 billion to $12 billion C) $7 billion to $9 billion D) $5 billion to $6 billion
A) $17 billion B) $25 billion C) $20 billion D) $10 billion
A) It led to increased hostility in West Germany. B) It caused economic instability. C) It resulted in international sanctions. D) It was not particularly useful.
A) James Reston B) John F. Kennedy C) Walter Ulbricht D) Nikita Khrushchev
A) In Berlin at a government office B) During a press conference on 15 June 1961 C) At the Vienna summit D) At a garden party in Döllnsee
A) Family reunifications became easier due to new policies. B) The Wall had no significant impact on family structures. C) Families were reunited across the sectors. D) Many families were split apart.
A) Mayor Willy Brandt. B) The Soviet Union's leader. C) President Kennedy. D) Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
A) DIA B) The National Security Agency C) CIA D) FBI
A) Tegel Airport B) Berlin Brandenburg Airport C) Schönefeld Airport D) Tempelhof Airport
A) 140 km (87 mi) B) 200 km (124 mi) C) 160 km (99 mi) D) 177 km (110 mi)
A) No more than four meters wide B) Eight meters wide C) Six meters wide D) Ten meters wide
A) 8 percent B) 25 percent C) 58 percent D) 12 percent
A) Rabbit à la Berlin (2009) B) The Road to the Wall (1962) C) The American Sector (2020) D) Something to Do with the Wall (1991)
A) Chris Gueffroy B) Winfried Freudenberg C) Peter Fechter D) Günter Litfin
A) 24 percent B) Six percent C) 58 percent D) Four percent
A) Shoot-to-kill orders B) Instructions to let defectors escape C) Orders to capture and imprison defectors D) Shooting orders (Schießbefehl)
A) "Gorby, help us!" B) "Freiheit jetzt!" (Freedom now!). C) "Wir bleiben hier!" (We are staying here!). D) "Honecker muss weg!" (Honecker must go!).
A) Schönefeld (partially) B) Königs Wusterhausen C) Lübbenau/Spreewald D) Mittenwalde
A) Nachtbahnhöfe B) Finsternisbahnhöfe C) Geisterbahnhöfe D) Schattenbahnhöfe
A) Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) B) ARD C) RTL D) ProSieben
A) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern B) Brandenburg C) Thuringia D) Saxony
A) Elton John B) David Hasselhoff C) Bruce Springsteen D) David Bowie
A) Keith Haring B) Thierry Noir C) Banksy D) Shepard Fairey
A) 22 months after the erection of the Berlin Wall B) 26 June 1963 C) January 1989 D) 12 June 1987
A) Liza Fox B) Veryl Goodnight C) Elsner D) Kremlingames
A) Driving a sports car through fortifications B) Jumping out of an apartment window C) A homemade natural gas-filled balloon crash D) Swimming across the Spree River
A) Brandenburg an der Havel, Rathenow, Premnitz B) Potsdam, Werder (Havel), Schwielowsee C) Stahnsdorf, Kleinmachnow, Teltow D) Nuthetal, Glienicke/Nordbahn, Oberkrämer
A) The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968) B) Escape from East Berlin (1962) C) Funeral in Berlin (1966) D) Casino Royale (1967)
A) Oranienburg B) Hohen Neuendorf C) Neuruppin D) Gransee
A) The Tunnel (2001) B) Open The Wall (2014) C) Sonnenallee (1999) D) Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
A) 24 percent B) 10 percent C) 58 percent D) 6 percent
A) Sex Pistols B) Klein Orkest C) Crosby, Stills & Nash D) Camel
A) Soviet military personnel. B) Western Allies themselves. C) Neutral international forces. D) East German border guards.
A) He supported the East German government. B) He criticized Western policies. C) He announced a new album release. D) He hoped that all barriers would be torn down.
A) 19 B) 29 C) 70 D) 5
A) Outer wall B) Reinforcement wall C) Hinterland wall (inner wall) D) Secondary barrier
A) B101 highway B) B96 highway C) A10 autobahn D) Berlin-Helmstedt autobahn
A) Luckenwalde B) Trebbin C) Jüterbog D) Großbeeren
A) Margaret Thatcher B) Theresa May C) Tony Blair D) Winston Churchill
A) New crossings opened after the 1972 agreements B) Checkpoint Alpha C) Checkpoint Charlie D) Friedrichstraße station
A) 12 percent B) 58 percent C) 8 percent D) 25 percent
A) U.S. President John F. Kennedy B) U.S. President Ronald Reagan C) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher D) GDR Leader Erich Honecker
A) Once (1990) by Roy Harper B) Holidays in the Sun by Sex Pistols C) Stationary Traveller (1984) D) 'Heroes' (1977) by David Bowie
A) 58 percent B) 24 percent C) Ten percent D) Six percent
A) The Tunnel (2001) B) Good Bye Lenin! (2003) C) Sonnenallee (1999) D) Open The Wall (2014)
A) Escape from East Berlin (1962) B) Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981) C) The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall (1965) D) Night Crossing (1982)
A) Chippin' Away B) 'Free' by Liza Fox (2013) C) 'Heroes' by David Bowie D) Stationary Traveller by Camel
A) Conrad Schumann B) Günter Litfin C) Wolfgang Engels D) Thomas Krüger
A) Holidays in the Sun B) The Day the Wall Came Down C) 'Heroes' D) Chippin' Away
A) Madonna B) Bruce Springsteen C) Elton John D) David Hasselhoff
A) Six percent B) Ten percent C) 24 percent D) 58 percent
A) A British citizen B) A Roman citizen C) A Soviet citizen D) An American citizen
A) Conrad Schumann B) Günter Litfin C) Wolfgang Engels D) Thomas Krüger
A) Friedrichstraße B) Potsdamer Platz C) Alexanderplatz D) Kurfürstendamm
A) Crosby, Stills & Nash B) Klein Orkest C) Sex Pistols D) Camel
A) 12 June 1987 B) 26 June 1963 C) January 1989 D) 22 months after the erection of the Berlin Wall
A) Günter Litfin B) Winfried Freudenberg C) Ida Siekmann D) Peter Fechter
A) Holidays in the Sun by Sex Pistols B) 'Heroes' by David Bowie C) Over de muur D) 'Berliners'
A) 87% B) 50% C) 74% D) 35%
A) Crosby, Stills & Nash B) Sex Pistols C) Camel D) Klein Orkest
A) GDR Leader Erich Honecker B) U.S. President John F. Kennedy C) U.S. President Ronald Reagan D) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
A) West Berlin government B) Stasi C) FDJ youth organization D) East German Communist Party
A) Bridge of Spies (2015) B) The Innocent (1993) C) Night Crossing (1982) D) Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
A) Bridge of Spies (2015) B) Good Bye Lenin! (2003) C) Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981) D) The Tunnel (2001)
A) 'Napoleon's Pathway' B) 'Hitler's Highway' C) 'Lenin's Ladder' D) 'Stalin's Carpet'
A) Falkensee B) Nauen C) Kleinmachnow D) Wustermark
A) Elderly pensioners. B) West Berliners. C) Only artists and musicians. D) All citizens without restrictions. |