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Berlin Wall Breakout
Charlotte Cox
Created on November 18, 2023
A breakout room to help middle-grade scholars learn more about East Berlin and the Berlin Wall
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BREAKOUT In Record Time!
MISSION 3
introduction
mission 1
mission 2
REWARD
INDEX
READ MORE
Welcome to Germany Circa 1961
After reading the passage entitled, Berlin Wall, start Mission 1. Use the passage to answer to quiz questions.
Let the journey from West to East begin!
INTRODUCTION
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MISSION 1
QUIZ
Wooden Planks
Concrete Walls topped with Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire and Cinder Blocks
What was the original Berlin Wall built of in 1961?
QUESTION 1
1989
1961
1949
What year was the Berlin Wall built?
QUESTION 2
5,000
10,000
500
About how many East Germans escaped and managed to reach West Berlin safely?
QUESTION 3
October 3, 1990
October 7, 1949
November 9, 1989
When did East Germany official open it's borders to the West, including East Berlin?
QUESTION 4
CONGRATULATIONS!
COMPLETED
MISSION
TRY AGAIN
WRONG!
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MISSION 2
CORRECT IMAGE
The trabant
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The boxy trabant car was known as a "spark plug on wheels".
mission 2
Young Pioneers
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Young Pioneers were boys and girls aged 6-13. This was a youth organization created in 1948 in East Germany.
mission 2
The Brandenburg Gate
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Access to the Brandenburg gate was cut off when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. During the time of Berlin Wall (1961-1989), no one could visit this famous symbol of Berlin, Germany.
mission 2
Bildung, B. für politische. (n.d.). Günter Litfin. Litfin, Günter | Chronicle of the Wall. https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/180480/litfin-guenter?type=galerie&show=image&i=177994
Humboldt Harbor
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Just after 4 PM Gunter Litfin attempted to reach West Berlin by jumping into the Humboldt Harbor. He was fatally wounded just before reaching the West Berlin bank.
mission 2
CONGRATULATIONS!
COMPLETED
MISSION
TRY AGAIN
WRONG!
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MISSION 3
museum
Served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
Joseph Stalin
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mission 4
40the United States President who visited Berlin in 1987, two years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
35th United States President who visited Berlin in 1963, one year after the Berllin Wall was built.
John F. Kennedy
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mission 4
Served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
Joseph Stalin
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mission 4
CONGRATULATIONS!
COMPLETED
MISSION
TRY AGAIN
WRONG!
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MISSION 1
REWARD
Enter the secret code 🔐 (hint - the year the Berlin Wall was erected)
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