The Berlin Wall (Sadlier Level E) UNit 6

1. In 1961, East Germany’s Communist government built the Berlin Wall, which divided the city in two. The construction of this wall was a (a)   act.

It had been planned by a vengeful regime determined to ______________ its power in the decades following the Allied victory over Hitler’s Germany

3. In a (a)   statement of double-speak, East Germany’s leaders claimed that the wall would shelter its people from “the ravages of capitalism.”

Even if the wall’s real purpose had not been made (a)   already, the truth was soon obvious to all.

that ugly concrete wall with its ___________ watchtowers was a daily reminder of control and repression

Germans tried to escape a country in which everyday life was marked by our political leaders’ (a)   rules.

Every law was rigidly enforced by the _____________________ secret police.

It was regular people like me who finally brought down the wall. We simply walked through its checkpoints. (a)   , isn’t it?

On November 10, my friend Anja and I went to the (a)   Brandenburg Gate

We had huge smiles on our faces. I swear, it was the (a)   of our lives,