First Four Chart Rd 2 Activity 8 Four

• First Four Chart • Rd. 2 Activity 8 Four Minutes – Label & date your paper. – POVL a source related to our current topic • Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End

Defectors from East to West Berlin From Wikipedia 2015 Purpose Origin Value Limitations

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

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

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?

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

The Berlin Wall: Why was it built?

Berlin Wall: Why was it built? • Remember: – Cold War – Division of Germany – Berlin Airlift 1948 -49 • What would you do if you lived in a communist country and a democratic country was right next door?

Defectors from East to West Berlin

Berlin Wall History Frame • Fill in the History Frame as you watch the videos. Use your books as needed to complete your work • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=W 7 Y E-N 448 fg • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=M 9_ BCiej. Rq. I

What role did they play in the Berlin Crisis of 1959 -1961? • • Sputnik ‘ 57 Economic issues Leaders in USSR & US U 2 Spy Plane ‘ 60

The Berlin Wall August 13, 1961

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

An 18 -year-old builder, Peter Fechter, shot dead behind the East Berlin side of the wall while trying to escape to the West - 1962

Deaths at Berlin Wall by Decade

Approx. 5, 000 escaped 1962 -1989

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.

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

Assignment PP. 153 -154 in textbook 1. How does Source A explain part of the crisis in Berlin? 2. Compare/Contrast Source C & Source F. What do these tell us about the Berlin Crisis? 3. Compare/Contrast Source G & Source H. What do these tell us about the Berlin Crisis?

So what? • How effective was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe 1947 -1989? – Yugoslavia – Hungary – Czechoslovakia – Berlin – Poland