First crack in the Berlin Wall – answers

correct the sentences

1. West Germans travelled to Hungary in 1989 for the Pan-European picnic. East Germans
2. The border was open for the whole day. hey opened and closed the border for a few minutes at a time
3. This was a tradition at the picnic. no, the people were surprised
4. People were shot at as they crossed the border. usually they would have been but on this day guards didn’t shoot when people crossed over
5. The German Chancellor grew up in Hungary. in East Germany
6. East Germans crossing the border were given winged badges. the incident ‘gave wings’ – gave encouragement and confidence to the East German desire for freedom
7. The picnic was an angry protest against the division of Europe. it was a peaceful protest
8. Protesters began making cracks in the Berlin Wall. the use of crack here is symbolic, this was the first step in what later caused the Wall to be pulled down
9. The Wall finally came down in December 1989. earlier than that (less than 3 months later) actually in November
10. The Pan-European picnic marked the end of a European revolution. it marked the beginning