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The fall of the Berlin Wall

Quiz by Oak National Academy: GCSE History Edexcel

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  • Q1
    In December 1988, Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union was rejecting the Brezhnev...
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    30s
  • Q2
    In which of these Eastern European countries did the end of communist rule not happen peacefully?
    Romania
    Poland
    Hungary
    East Germany
    Czechoslovakia
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  • Q3
    The phrase ‘Die Mauer muss weg!’ (‘The Wall must go!’) became a rallying cry among demonstrators in which Eastern European city?
    Warsaw
    Prague
    Berlin
    Bucharest
    Budapest
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  • Q4
    In 1989, which Eastern European country decided to remove the border fence between it and Austria, which then meant East Germans began to cross this border into West Europe?
    Hungary
    Czechoslovakia
    Austria
    USSR
    East Germany
    30s
  • Q5
    In the evening of which of these days did guards open the gates in the Berlin Wall, allowing people from East and West to cross freely?
    6th October 1989
    7th December 1988
    9th November 1989
    27th June 1989
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  • Q6
    Put these events in chronological order.
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