Self-Scoring Berlin Wall Quiz
If you have read our Berlin Wall Timeline chronology, the East Side Gallery Timeline, and the Berlin Airlift history page, you’re ready for this quiz.
Checkpoint Charlie at the Friedrichstraße border crossing in August 1969. The Berlin Wall and a guard tower are visible in the background. PHOTO: Hyde Flippo
Welcome to our self-scoring, 10-item quiz on the history of the Berlin Wall. Good luck!
Directions: Select one correct answer for each question below. When you have answered all 10 questions, click on “FINISH” to see your score and the correct answers.
Results
#1. The construction of the Berlin Wall was ordered by the East German leader _____.
#2. Construction of the Berlin Wall began on 13 August _____.
#3. The original East Side Gallery had its official debut on 28 September ____.
#4. Berlin's Straße des 17. Juni is named for the date of ____.
#5. The length of the Wall surrounding Berlin was _____.
#6. U.S. President Ronald Reagan made his famous "tear down this Wall" speech in Berlin on 12 June _____.
#7. In August 1989, over 700 refugees fled the GDR and the East Bloc by crossing the _____ border.
#8. The 1989 anti-government "Monday demonstrations" in East Germany began in _____.
#9. The head of East Germany who resigned in October, just weeks before the Berlin Wall fell, was _____.
#10. John F. Kennedy made his famous 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in front of the _____.
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- East Side Gallery Timeline (1989-Present)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. in Berlin – Everyone knows about JFK’s 1963 visit to West Berlin, but MLK went to both East and West Berlin in 1964.
- Berlin Airlift – Die Luftbrücke 1948-1949
- Berlin – City Guide – What to see in the German capital
- The Reichstag in Berlin – The history of the German parliament and a guide to visiting the Reichstag and its dome
- Our Living in Germany section has information and links of interest to those now living or planning to live in the German-speaking world.
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