The Berlin Wall (Sadlier Level E) UNit 6

1. In 1961, East Germany’s Communist government built the Berlin Wall, which divided the city in two. The construction of this wall was a ____________ act.

It had been planned by a vengeful regime determined to ______________ its power in the decades following the Allied victory over Hitler’s Germany

• brandished

• brandish

• brandishing

• brand

3. In a _________statement of double-speak, East Germany’s leaders claimed that the wall would shelter its people from “the ravages of capitalism.”

Even if the wall’s real purpose had not been made ___________ already, the truth was soon obvious to all.

that ugly concrete wall with its ___________ watchtowers was a daily reminder of control and repression

• destitute

• ominous

• ironic

• officious

Germans tried to escape a country in which everyday life was marked by our political leaders’ ______________ rules.

Every law was rigidly enforced by the _____________________ secret police.

• officious

• supple

• musty

• venal

It was regular people like me who finally brought down the wall. We simply walked through its checkpoints. ______________, isn’t it?

On November 10, my friend Anja and I went to the ____________________ Brandenburg Gate

We had huge smiles on our faces. I swear, it was the __________________ of our lives,