Students examine the events which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the significance of this for the collpase of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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The lesson resources include:

• 1 x A4 Workbook Style Fact Sheet (PDF & PPT) – Included in every Cold War lesson!
• 1 x Main Power Point Lesson

The 22 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Lesson key questions
• Slide 3: Starter - Using own knowledge and a photograph of the Berlin Wall, students think of reasons why so few people crossed the wall. Answers given.
• Slide 4-6: Recap - A sentence fill activity to recap why the Berlin Wall was built. Includes answers and printable worksheet.
• Slide 7-10: Fall of the Berlin Wall sources - three sources each with a set of questions. Includes a printable worksheet which includes all three sources.
• Slide 11-12: Background information and links to TV reports of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
• Slide 13-15: Task - A worksheet for students to complete based on the immediate and longer term consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Answers provided.
• Slide 16-17: Task - An interview with Mikhail Gorbachev worksheet - printable
• Slide 18: Evaluation of the role of Gorbachev in the collapse of communism/the Soviet Union.
• Slide 19: Lesson fact sheet/knowledge organiser
• Slide 21: Example exam/assessment questions based on the lesson
• Slide 22: More from RA Resources

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