1. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Rd. 2 Activity 8
Label & date your paper.
POVL a source related to our current topic
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
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2. Defectors from East to West Berlin From Wikipedia 2015
Purpose
Origin
Value
Limitations

3. Today’s Agenda First Four Finish Projects from Last Class
5 Minutes
Gallery Walk & Questions
Assignment – Write Paragraph
Videos – Berlin Wall
History Frame

4. Gallery Walk
How similar were events in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Causes
USSR Actions
People/events
Assignment:
Write a paragraph that answers this question with at least 3 points of comparison or contrast

5. Good morning!
Please get out your Berlin Wall History Frame, your Major Themes sheet, and any other notes you may have.
Be thinking about your favorite movie of all time. Why is this your favorite?

6. Today’s Agenda Why was the Berlin Wall built?
Video
History Frame
Major factors
So what? How does this fit into this unit?
USSR controlling Eastern Europe

7. The Berlin Wall: Why was it built?

8. Berlin Wall: Why was it built?
Remember:
Cold War
Division of Germany
Berlin Airlift
What would you do if you lived in a communist country and a democratic country was right next door?

9. Defectors from East to West Berlin

10. Berlin Wall History Frame
Fill in the History Frame as you watch the videos. Use your books as needed to complete your work

11. What role did they play in the Berlin Crisis of 1959-1961?
Sputnik ‘57
Economic issues
Leaders in USSR & US
U2 Spy Plane ‘60

12. The Berlin Wall August 13, 1961

13. Outcomes? Physical symbol of the Cold War
Defectors from East to West Berlin?
Global image of communism?
Threat of war over Berlin ended.
East Germans who did not support communism were trapped.
Beginning of period of calm in Europe
No immediate prospect of change
Tensions lowered

14. An 18-year-old builder, Peter Fechter, shot dead behind the East Berlin side of the wall while trying to escape to the West

15. Deaths at Berlin Wall by Decade

16. Approx. 5,000 escaped

17. Fall of the Wall
New leadership and an economic crisis in the USSR & Eastern Europe lead to the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

19. So what? Why was the Berlin Wall Built?
Khrushchev trying to prove himself – attempt to get West out of Berlin
Stop flow of defectors
Economic crisis in East
Maintain divide between East & West
A warning to the West – Keep spies out
Leadership of JFK
Help USSR maintain control over its allies

20. Assignment PP. 153-154 in textbook
How does Source A explain part of the crisis in Berlin?
Compare/Contrast Source C & Source F. What do these tell us about the Berlin Crisis?
Compare/Contrast Source G & Source H. What do these tell us about the Berlin Crisis?

21. So what?
How effective was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe ?
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Poland